Gardy wants a right-handed bat, relief help

What Gardy wants

Posted on July 14th, 2008

By La Velle Neal

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Twins manager Ron Gardenhire on Sunday talked about how he’d like to
improve his team before the July 31 deadline for trades without
waivers. I ran out of room to post his comments in today’s paper,
mainly because I found out yesterday afternoon that the Twins have
placed a call into the Mariners about third baseman Adrian Beltre.

Gardenhire said he would be in touch with general manger Bill Smith
over the All-Star break about potential moves. He didn’t sound like
anything was close, but at least the Twins are looking at options now.

When asked if he had a wish list, Gardenhire: "The one thing we had a
hard time with in the first half was left-handed pitching,’’ he said.
"When (Michael) Cuddyer comes back, that’s always gong to help, but if
you have to make adjustments we need to hit lefties better than we did
this half."

"You always look at your bullpen to make sure you are O.K. there. We
about murdered them the first half."


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