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
baseball bit game good gotten grown known people practice presence sloppy talked year
The story has always been with him that he's a sloppy practice guy, but a good game guy. He's gotten better at his practice now, and a lot of people talked to him about that, working on some drills. He's grown up a little bit and made his presence known this year in camp.
along last relaxed seemed sure year
Cuddy got better and better as the year went along last year, especially when we put him in the outfield. He relaxed a little bit. I'm sure he'll say no, but he seemed to do better there.
left managing player position year
We've got one position player left from my first year of managing here. One.
ball ground hit hurt last looking missed run second situations year
Last year, we missed too many opportunities. What hurt us more than anything last year was situational hitting, so if we can hit a ground ball to second in some of those situations to get a run in, we're going to be better off for it. That's what we are looking for, a little better situational hitting.
mess next ready sure tonight year
We need to make sure we're ready for next year for him. We don't want to mess with that thing. He's pitched on it long enough, and tonight he kind of tweaked it again.
balls fall fine hits hopefully last lucky past quite run wherever year
Lew is fine wherever you put him. He's going to play like Lew, he's going to hustle, run balls out and hopefully some of his balls will fall in. Last year he wasn't as lucky as he had been the year before. A lot of times hits will go down to being lucky, and this past year he wasn't quite as lucky.
backed exactly good year
This year he's been very, very solid. As good as they get in this league. We haven't exactly scored a lot of runs. We know that. But he's backed it up.
time year
We've probably had too many at the same time this year who've struggled.
next pitchers statement year
Does he make a statement to be one of our pitchers for next year? We'll see how he does this year and we'll go from there.
baseball best card division heel pitching position support wild year
That's our Achilles' heel all year long. We've got one of the best pitching staffs in baseball and offensively, we just can't support them. That's why we're in the position we're in in our league, our division and this Wild Card race.
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.
help nice people support talk year
It's always nice to get out and talk to the people who help support us all year long.
baseball best heel pitching support year
It's been our Achilles' heel all year long. We have one of the best pitching staffs in baseball and we just can't support them offensively.
last tried tv year
We tried a hit-and-run (twice) last night. We got one of them right. That's better than the year before. I think that was more of a TV malfunction.