Ron Gardenhire
Ron Gardenhire
Ronald Clyde Gardenhireis a former Major League Baseball shortstop for the New York Mets and former manager of the Minnesota Twins. He currently serves as a special assistant to the General Manager of the Minnesota Twins, Terry Ryan...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth24 October 1957
CityButzbach, Germany
game gave majors pitch until
It was his game until he gave up a run. You don't get too many opportunities in the majors to pitch a 1-0 shutout.
guys step
They've had some guys step up and play very, very well for them,
bases days few outfield playing proves run starts
Once he starts playing the outfield and proves to us that he can run the bases and play the outfield a few days in a row, then we'll see where he's at.
catch held saw tries
Once he saw he couldn't catch it, he could have held him to a single. Instead, he tries to make a little too much out of it.
against good teams
Not very many teams have been very good against him.
coming people sitting start stuff thinking trap worrying
I'm not sitting around thinking about it as much as I used to. I used to booby trap everything. You start worrying about that stuff coming back at you. I'm a little calmer because there are different people here.
bench good hitter sit start three unless week
I'm going to start him, too. I'm going to try to get him at-bats. You can't be a good hitter off the bench unless you get at-bats and get a good feel for it. You can't just sit there and get one at-bat a week or every three days.
bit evaluate games guy guys punish quite
I'm not going to punish a guy just because he's going to the world games. It's quite an honor. But it does make it a little bit more difficult. I'm not going to evaluate him while he's in the world games. I'll be evaluating my guys here.
believe expect help nice pressure season slow sometime starts team
I'm not going to expect too much of him. We want to take it nice and slow and not put too much pressure on him. I do believe he's going to help our team sometime this year, even if he starts the season in the minors.
bit greatest guys start
I'm not jittery. It's not the greatest thing in the world to start out like this. I'm not jittery about it. I think these guys can play a little bit and we'll be all right.
good lost proud
I'm proud of the guys. To come back from 5-0, we lost the game, but we put up a pretty good fight. But that's not what we need right now. We need wins.
best both diplomatic match trying
I'm just going to match up as best I can. I'm trying to be diplomatic and fair, because I think the world of both of them.
fear
I have no fear with those two young men,
cold
I had to get him out of there with these cold temperatures. He's not used to this cold.