Ron Gardenhire Throwing 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.

He's going to be pumped up and throwing as hard as he can, and those are the scary issues you have. We don't get a chance to monitor him.

Last season, we hurt ourselves on the relays throwing home and balls getting through the infield. We just can't give away runs with this pitching staff. It's too good. So we needed that type of strong defense.

We know it's early with the kid, but we like his arm. He's been throwing the ball very well down here.

We had a chance to put a dagger in them and take it to them. The guy is throwing the ball all over the place. We didn't get it done.

We've protected our starting staff, so they're good, they're ready to go. We haven't let anybody kill themselves throwing 120 pitches, so we're set up for September pitching-wise, if our bullpen can maintain.

We just really have to wait and see. On that schedule right there, getting in three games and if he feels comfortable throwing all three of his pitches, then he's probably going to be ready. But we're a little worried about this.

Their guy totally shut us down. A big, tall guy throwing sliders and sinkers. He totally ate us up.

He threw as good as we were expecting and hoping he'd throw, ... He was throwing the fastball, using the fastball, locating the fastball and working off of that. Once he does that, his slider and changeup are unbelievable.