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...
guy
That was a problem. He's a guy who has to be in (the lineup) a little more to keep his stroke.
club
We'll always have to do that. That's the way our club is built.
adds dan depth form great mike past potential return success
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.
expected people proved team
We never expected that team to do anything like it did. He proved a lot of people wrong.
ahead half laid plan second ugly work worked year
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 capable confident feels gets spring talk whether
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.
coming indication robin
I really do think that Robin coming back to us is an indication we have a chance. I don't think he would, otherwise. From that standpoint, we think we're going into it with a chance.
ahead club farther goals good next playoff start time tougher year
That's a good start but it's only the beginning. We're farther ahead at this time this year than we were at this time a year ago. But it's going to be tougher to get to the next level, and that's what our goals are. We want to take this club and put it in the playoff environment.
bobby impact players respect stays touch
I think Ned is a lot like Bobby. I think the players respect him like they do Bobby. I know he stays in touch with Bobby all the time, so there is some impact there.
That's my feeling. We should get it done soon.
ben feels pride
There's a lot of pride involved. I think that's why Ben feels he'd like to play.
accomplish block building huge needed
It's something we needed to accomplish for our fans. It was a huge building block for us.
explore happen march mean supposed
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.
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.