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BOSTON — Doug Mient-kiewicz wants to bury this thing with Ron Gardenhire.And Mientkiewicz saw last Monday night as the perfect opportunity to start making amends with his former manager, whom the veteran first baseman has solely blamed for the Twins trading him to the Boston Red Sox as part of a four-team deal July 31.
Saying his anger has quelled in almost two months since leaving the only organization he had known in 9½ professional seasons, Mient-kiewicz sent Gardenhire a congratulatory e-mail hours after the Twins clinched their third consecutive American League Central Division championship with a victory over the Chicago White Sox at U.S. Cellular Field.
Mientkiewicz said he wrote: "What you've been able to do over there is unprecedented. Regardless of what you think of me as a person, I wanted to say congratulations. It's a hell of an accomplishment."