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
looking shortened time
They said he shortened everything up, which is what we were looking for. Now you just bide your time here and see where we're at as we go along.
ball catch guys middle
They're very quick. When those guys in the middle catch the ball like that, that's pretty good.
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A lot of people thought we were going to the World Series last year. They just didn't realize how young our lineup was. And when we got a few guys hurt, it really hurt us.
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A lot of things got straightened out. It was a good conversation, ... Both parties learned a little bit about what each other is thinking and what's going on. It helped me. I'm sure it helped J.C. I learned a lot from him.
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They kind of whacked us around. Joe was up in the zone and they pretty much hit everything he threw up there. And that's a pretty good formula. You get your starter to go eight or nine innings and you hit three-run homers. Normally it works out pretty good.
ball catching good middle playing
They have good pitching. They can throw. They got a good middle of the lineup. They're catching the ball in the middle of the infield. They're playing very aggressive. They're doing the things that we have to do to get back in it.
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They're playing the game over there. That's a great baseball team.
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There's a lot of money being thrown around out there and it's hard to get in the market and sign free agents. We're lucky on this one.
concern ends pitchers ready season
There's concern with everybody. What if one of your pitchers ends up in the bullpen? How is he going to be ready for the season without getting innings?
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At least there's a positive in that he's not going to have any sort of major reconstruction done on the tendon or anything torn up in there. It's good bad news.
B-A-K-E-R. You can write that. You could even underline that. He'll be in that rotation.
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Baker was fantastic. He used his breaking ball, his changeup and had the high fastball working. He located pretty good. He gave us a great chance to win. It's unfortunate we couldn't score enough runs for him. Rincon came in and had two good innings for us, got out of the one, which was huge. Then we finally come up with the big base hit.
baker ball games threw
Baker threw the ball great. He pitched very well in some big games.
bake stock whacked zone
Bake just didn't have it today. He was up in the zone and got whacked around, and they scored and scored and scored. We're not going to put too much stock into it, other than it was disappointing.