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
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.
best given people player stew worry
We know what Stew can do, what kind of player he is. We don't have to worry about that. ... We've got people we've got to get a look at, too. He's given us the best he can.
nice says talked
We've talked about it. He says he'd like to do more. That would be nice to see.
effort looked until
We made an effort there at the end. Up until that, it looked ugly.
ball
We're just going to give him the ball like we always have.
needs starting time
We're starting to get concerned. It's mid-March, and he hasn't been out there yet. We have time, but the time is getting to where he needs to get out there and see some hitters.
feeling talking
He said he was working out, on a diet, and was going to get to feeling better. He was talking about getting married.
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.
andy concern individual pitchers pitches talking themselves watches
Andy watches it all the time, now we're talking to individual pitchers about doing it. They do go watch it when they come out of the games. They watch themselves a lot. It's not so much a concern about tipping pitches but making better pitches.
bet forget people sure talking throughout year
I'm sure there'll be a lot of people talking throughout the year about Puck. You can bet that we won't ever forget him.
fastball mph poise talking
Poise? I don't think we're talking about poise here. I think we're talking about a 97 mph fastball with a curveball from hell.
andy talking watches
Andy watches it all the time. Now we're talking about it with each pitcher.
choked nice
That one kind of choked me up. I thought that was a pretty nice thing by big Buck.