Doug Melvin
Doug Melvin
Douglas Robert Melvinis a Canadian front-office executive in Major League Baseball who served as the general manager of the Texas Rangers and Milwaukee Brewers of the American League and National League He held the position with Milwaukee from 2002 to 2015. He is currently a senior advisor for the Milwaukee Brewers...
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Next time, they could make a rule that a pitcher has to pitch in the last 30 days of the (previous) season. There will be some kinks like that, that need to be worked out.
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It's something we needed to accomplish for our fans. It was a huge building block for us.
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Working with Mike Maddux, Dan had great success for us in the past and he adds to the depth of our relief. We think that he has great potential to return to his form of 2004 and make a significant contribution to our staff.
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A hearing heart loves to whom it listens.
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To toughen up, is to calm down.
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I turn the tables and challenge our people, our scouts, and they respond. We had a meeting with our scouts this week and told them [we] will use and value their opinions. That perks them up.
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Never say an unkind word to anyone.
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We'll talk to him and see how he feels after he gets to spring training. I'm confident Ben will know whether he's capable of it or not capable of it.
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We had an ugly second half a year ago and had a lot of work ahead of us. What we laid out this year, the plan pretty well worked out and accomplished what we wanted to do.
ben feels pride
There's a lot of pride involved. I think that's why Ben feels he'd like to play.
That's my feeling. We should get it done soon.
backed confidence paid prepared send
There were one or two times we were prepared to send him out but we backed off. Ned had confidence in him and it paid off in the end.
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They're supposed to come here March 5. I told them we'd explore it. That doesn't mean it will happen but we said we'd look at it.
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Our minor league staff got him ready from an offensive standpoint but we know Rickie's got a lot of work to do on the defensive side. But he got his 300 at-bats in the second half. So the learning curve of both Rickie and J.J. has happened.