Ron Gardenhire Pitchers Quotations

If Buck sees him throwing 84 mph on March 6, he's going to have a heart attack. It's an issue, but people have to deal with it. There are going to be pitchers who are notorious for not getting going until right at the end of spring training. Guys aren't going to be locked and loaded; that's almost a guarantee.

He doesn't have any issues? Not with the pitchers I was throwing against them.

We've got other pitchers down the road. We might even take a look at them.

Walks will kill you, and we talk about that a lot. Our pitchers believe in that. Silva really believes in it, obviously.

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.

There's concern with everybody. What if one of your pitchers ends up in the bullpen? How is he going to be ready for the season without getting innings?

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.

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.

Their pitcher was aware. Wood did a great job there. Most pitchers would catch the ball and start arguing with the umpire. He was very aware. He turned around looked home. He did a great job on that play.

If pitchers make mistakes against those guys, they can hurt you.