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
faces man nice throw
Garza did fine. He's got a nice-looking arm. He's going to be a nice-looking pitcher. It's nice to get to see the young man throw the ball. You like to put faces with names.
gotten life steroids taken
I could've taken steroids my whole life and never gotten 3,000 hits.
baseball talk talking twins
I don't want to talk J.C, we're talking Twins baseball. Me and J.C. are fine. We've done our business.
call hesitate powerful quality season
He's not only a powerful hitter, he's a quality person. We know what he can do, and if we need him this season we won't hesitate to call him up.
blow carry few learned move past
He's not going to carry that with him. He learned over the past few years to just blow things off. It's over with. You're not going to do anything about it, so you move on. He's fine.
beaten guy leaders-and-leadership lost needs outfield people step
He's one of our leaders. We lost a lot of people this year. Our outfield has been beaten up pretty bad. And Jacque is the one guy who needs to step up, and he's been doing that.
hitters playing roll swinging trying
He's on a little roll right now. He's playing very well right now. I want to keep him in the lineup when he's swinging good. He's been one of our better hitters on this trip. I'm trying to keep him going.
arm future great
He's got a great arm and a great future in this organization.
looks ready
He's got a different mind-set, and it's showing. He looks like he's ready for the challenge.
ball few mixed thrown
He's mixed in there with a few guys. He has thrown the ball well for us.
baseball determine far left looked people plan played spring
How much baseball he has left in him, that's what we'll determine in spring training. As far as going to Plan B, that's not something I've looked at yet. But we've got people here who've played over there before.
figure hits slow
How many hits did they have? They can kill the ball. We have to figure a way to slow them down.
best
I could go with no lefties if I have to. We'll go with the best pitchers. We'll take a right-hander if I think the right-hander can do a better job. You'd like to have one (lefty).
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.