Arizona Diamondbacks Bench Coach Ron Gardenhire announced today that he was recently diagnosed with prostate cancer. Gardenhire will have surgery to remove his prostate at a date to be determined and will take a leave of absence from the team at that time.
"I'm going to fight it and deal with it," said Gardenhire. "It's a bump in the road and it's not how I envisioned starting Spring Training with a brand new team but it's part of life. With the backing of this ball club, we'll get through it and I'll get through it."
"We are a family," said D-backs Manager Torey Lovullo.