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
good loss score tough
Tough loss for us. We pitched good enough to win. We didn't score enough runs.
process tracking
We are in the process of tracking him down to find out what's going on. We don't know when he'll be in.
ball early throwing
We know it's early with the kid, but we like his arm. He's been throwing the ball very well down here.
chance everybody people
We'll have different people in there tomorrow. We're going to give everybody a chance to look bad.
baseball defensive fun meeting putting
We'll have a little 'pump-'em-up' meeting and then go play baseball. We'll be putting in the whole defensive package. That's where it's fun for me.
cancel guarantee hearts job puck shut
You'd like to just be able to cancel everything and shut it down but that's not the way the world works. And we understand. We all have a job to do. You can guarantee our hearts are right there with Puck and the family. ... We all know where Puck is going to be. He's going to be up there whacking the ball.
ask few forte good guys home hope looked numbers past swinging
We're not used to that around here, guys swinging for home runs, but that's what his forte is. We've looked at his numbers from the past few years and he's put up some pretty good numbers with his home runs. That's what he does. He's going to do that -- we hope -- a lot, and that's what we ask of him, is to swing.
changed good played team
We played a pretty good team that has a changed lineup. We battled. We're OK. I like how we competed here.
banging definitely guys middle runs start
We definitely need those guys to hit, that's the middle of the lineup. We need our middle guys to start banging the runs around.
nice night
We don't know where to go from here, but it was a nice night.
maybe quit worn
We battled our butts off and didn't quit playing. They had to use their closer, so maybe he'll be worn out tomorrow.
along bring bullpen dominating pitcher pressure seen situations spring throw
We want to bring him along slowly. He can be a pretty dominating pitcher out of the bullpen the way we've seen him throw in spring training. And we could put him in situations where he can go out and not have too much pressure on him.
baseball cleveland close easier good pitching playing teams
Our pitching is pretty close to where we need to be. I think we're going to be fine. It's not going to get easier going into Cleveland (this weekend). We're going to be playing a lot of good baseball teams early, so you're not going to be able to breathe. You've got to keep grinding.
chased chasing earned few won
They've earned the respect. They won the World Series. We're chasing them. They chased us for a few years.