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
best game hearts involved players prayers puck today
We did the best we could today and the game was ... whatever. It was a game. But this organization and the players involved here, our hearts and prayers are with Puck and his family.
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.
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Tough loss for us. We pitched good enough to win. We didn't score enough runs.
breaking velocity work
He's got velocity and he has a breaking ball, it just didn't work out for him today. He got beat.
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He was apologetic and that's all that I cared about. He understood that you have to handle situations a little better, and that's part of the growing up process too. I'm happy with it. I feel better about the whole situation. That's really all that matters.
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He was a little out of whack before, but he's not out of whack anymore. This guy is making a case for himself. You get down toward the playoffs, you start looking at who can do it and who can't. It looks like he can do some things.
He was a little out of whack before, but he's not out of whack anymore,
ball bats breaking early good jumping stuff
He was breaking a lot of bats early in the game. His cutter was getting in there. He had good stuff tonight. The ball was jumping out of his hand.
next ready
He understands that this is what we have to do to get ready for next year.
five innings less pitches plays ugly
He was up a little bit, 75 pitches in less than five innings is getting up there. He battled OK, but we had some ugly plays out there.
couple
He says, 'We've just got to get him through the first couple innings,'
hearts perspective prayers situation takes tough
We all put things in perspective here. That pretty much takes away from anything you do at the ballpark. Our hearts and our prayers are all with Puck. We know it's a tough situation out there.
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.