Doug Melvin
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"Douglas Robert Melvin" is a Canada/Canadian front-office executive in Major League Baseball who currently serves as the General Manager (baseball)/general manager of the Milwaukee Brewers of the National League. He has held the position since 26 September 2002.

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I think he can have fun with players, but he can also jump their (expletive) when he has to. He'll go up and pat them on the back, but if you make a some stupid, idiotic play or don't hustle, he has no fear of walking down to the end of the bench and letting you know it.

When you're a team like ours that has to build, the one thing you need is stability. You need that with your front office, your manager, your scouts for good things to happen.

They can keep him in their system. They don't have to offer him back.

We made the decision that we're going to have our pitchers hit. I talked to Ned, and he wants our pitchers to hit this spring. We need to get them the work.

It's hard to pick and choose. You look at guys who had good years. If they don't work out, maybe you go to somebody else. Not many teams do it after one year.

We agreed to leave it on the table until his agents get here. They want to come and talk to Bill about it, face-to-face.

He'll put a little pressure on himself, but not to the point where he'll get frustrated. But you know what? This kid likes pressure.

There are a couple of areas we need to get better at. It's not always the coaches' fault, but sometimes you have to make changes.

They have a lot of information they can bring. It's good to just get an outside opinion on things.