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
blowing gets great guy kid might people pitching punish quite time tough
All you can see is how he does. I don't want to punish a kid for something like that. It's quite an honor. He might be pitching great for the world games, but I might have a guy here that's blowing people away every time he gets the ball. What are you going to do? That makes it tough on all parties.
ball game guys slap throw
The game turns. They throw a barrage at you. They have guys who can slap the ball and guys who can put it into the seats. They have guys who can do everything.
grown guys trying
These guys haven't grown up together. So it's a little more trying to feel each other out and see what happens.
anybody ball catch definitely effort fingers hit month pitch pointing team total ways work year
This is only the first month of the year here and we have a long ways to go, but we definitely have a lot of work to do. We have to pitch better; we have to hit better, and catch the ball better -- the whole package. That's why there can't be anybody pointing fingers in here, because it's a total package. We need an effort by the whole team to get better.
good
This hasn't righted the ship. We're still an under-.500 team. But it's a good feeling.
baseball facing starter throw
All he can do is go out and throw the baseball, ... You have to think of where Radke is at. He has been our No. 1 starter for how many years? When you're the No. 1 starter, who are you facing? You're facing the other teams' No. 1, No. 2 starter pretty much the whole year.
excited guys realize spring start training
All of the guys are excited to see one another and to realize that the start of Spring Training is right around the corner.
bad bullets couple frustrated gives good hit pitches three
You could tell he got frustrated after the big one out there in the gap, where he gives up three more. You know he's frustrated and then he makes a couple more pitches up and they hit a couple of bullets off him. So he's just frustrated right now. He makes a good pitch, they hit it, makes a bad pitch, they hit it. It's just not working out for him right now.
electricity
You could feel the electricity in the building.
besides character family fits great man mold nice players third ways
You can use him a lot of different ways besides just at third -- first base, DH. He can do a lot of things and he can hit. He's also a very nice man with great family so he fits the mold for us. We're not just after players but players with character and he fits that.
avenues bench good handle hitter jobs knows leagues sit three unless week
You can't be a good hitter off the bench unless you get some at-bats. You can't just sit there and get one at-bat a week or one at-bat every three days. He's been on a lot of different avenues in the big leagues and done a lot of different jobs with a lot of different teams, and he knows how to handle himself.
chance gave kid
The kid pitched OK, ... He gave us a chance to win.
kid shut
Their kid was unbelievable. He shut us down.
gave greatest
He battled through it. He didn't have his greatest stuff. Johan battled through it and gave us everything he had.