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
add charlotte half hour minutes port takes team
It takes us an hour and a half to get to Sarasota and Bradenton, and you can add 15-20 minutes more with the traffic. A team in Port Charlotte would be perfect.
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There was a line halfway around the building at around 5:15 waiting to get in. It was amazing to see the excitement that the fans have.
fear half handle lead maybe people starting
Maybe we can put some fear in them, They have a single-digit lead (over Cleveland) now, so you know they're starting to feel the effects. And that's half the battle, to see how people handle things.
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He's done OK. But the expectations were really high after the second half and what he did last year. He hasn't lived up to that. Scouts are up there and people see things. He hasn't been able to make the adjustments as quickly as a couple of guys. That's something he'll have to do to get better.
balls bats half position season spring start
He told me they didn't play him at all in a position in Spring Training, and then they get to the season and half way through they start him in the outfield. We just need to get him out there so he can see balls off bats and try to get him acclimated.
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Whether the general manager believes that he can help me out of my pen, I haven't asked yet. That was impressive to me to watch him come right at the hitters with a nice angle to the ball.
pride whatever win
We're going to do whatever we can to try to win games. So pride can go out the window.
defensive guys instead men mode offensive position scoring
When we get men into scoring position or on base, it's like we go into defensive mode instead of offensive mode. I don't know how to get guys out of it.
call
What he should do is call me. Not you.
hit messing start
We're doing fine. I'm not going to start messing around with guys' brains. In time, he'll hit cleanup. We've said that before.
ball facing good hot team
(We're) facing a hot team that's got everything going for them. And we're not really locating the ball as good as we can. That's what it comes down to.
battling easier few good guys numbers players positions start stretching work
We're getting down to a few numbers where we can work it a little easier and not try to get everyone in. We want to start stretching out our players and take a good look at some of these guys that are battling each other and battling for positions on this team.
bunch fans guys saw
We're battling, and we got some big hits. Our fans saw a pretty fired-up bunch of guys out there today.
certain inventing start
When your infielder can't go out and play, you get a little nervous. You start to look around and inventing things on how you could get through it if certain things happen.