Detroit – The Wiki version of Tigers manager Ron Gardenhire’s career is fairly well-known, especially to long-time Tigers followers who regularly had their hearts broken by his Twins teams.
He was with the Twins from 1991 (when he was the third base coach on their World Series-winning team) through 2014. He replaced Tom Kelly as manager in 2002 and won more than 1,000 games and six division titles over the next 13 seasons.
He was the manager of the year in 2010 and was runner-up five other times.
But since we’re about to embark on a three-year journey with this man, and since access to him has been understandably scarce since his introductory press conference, we wanted to find out more about who he is and how he is likely to operate with a rebuilding Tigers team.