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
funny laughs tony
I'm Tony Batista from the Dominican Republic. He's a pretty funny guy. We've had a lot of laughs already.
given heck honored respect thinks
I'm honored that he even thinks about me for that. I respect the heck out of Ozzie and always have. I just don't know yet. I haven't given it much thought.
earlier guys perfect pitchers pitching sat science staff year
It wasn't a perfect science earlier in the year with our pitching staff and Joe. There were issues. We sat down with the pitchers and we sat down with the catchers about how different guys like to pitch. That was something he had to learn.
couple days
I've got pitching, ... We'll have to go a couple of days like this.
fan might oh throw
Oh my, ... If you're going to give up a homer, you might as well give it up like that. That was a long one. The fan couldn't even throw it back on the field.
winning
Not as winning as we wanted it to be, but it's a winning season. That's important.
tells timetable
It's very tough. They didn't put a timetable on it, so that tells me it's going to be a while.
flip people
It's wall-to-wall people here now. On the flip side, it's Florida. It's gorgeous.
allowing best breaking eventually hit outfield protect slowly
I want to protect him the best I can and we'll go from there. He's doing the drills and he's doing fine, but I don't want to kill him. I think breaking him in slowly by allowing him to hit and then eventually getting him into the outfield is the right thing to do.
against force guard guys happy letting looks nice odds player talk trying
I want the whole player back. You have to guard against letting him get out there and trying to force too much or letting him do too much early. It's nice to see and I'm really happy that he's back out there running around, because when it happened, there was a lot of talk that some guys never come back from this. It looks like he's beating the odds right now.
balls fell gap hit holes ran
It was a disappointing series. They just killed us. They ran balls down in the gap and the ones they hit fell in. They were able to find the holes and we couldn't.
ballgame
Take him out of the ballgame in this series, with what's been going on around here, that's not easy.
definitely doubtful maybe today
It's definitely not a pull, but it's sore, so we'll see where we're at with him. It's doubtful we'll use him today but maybe after the day off.
deserved
It's disappointing we can't get him more wins. Just like a lot of our pitchers, they've deserved a lot better this year. We know that Santana is one of them.