March 11, 2010, 11:59 pm
Gardner Bunting Way Into Girardi’s Good Graces
By BEN SHPIGEL

“…Starting in mid-December, Gardner would go to an indoor baseball facility near his home in Charleston, S.C., and bunt, bunt, bunt. He dumped a bucket of balls – about 80, he said – inside a machine called a Fungoman, which he could control by a remote that he kept in his pocket or at his feet. When one round was finished, he would pick up the balls and start again.

“It allows you to get a lot of reps in,” Gardner said. “The good thing was, I could just turn it on, didn’t have to unplug it or anything. I could just focus on getting a lot of work in.”

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