Doug Melvin moving to advisory role with club

The team and Melvin said Tuesday he will continue to lead the baseball operations department before “transitioning into an advisory role”.

“It was time”, Melvin said by phone Tuesday afternoon. “It’s better to be out in front”. In 2008, Melvin acquired an ace in C.C. Sabathia in an all-out effort to make that elusive postseason berth, and it paid off handsomely. With an emphasis on developing homegrown talent, and buoyed by Mark Attanasio’s purchase of the team in 2005, the franchise reached the.

Fernandez is 4-0 this season with a 2.30 ERA in seven starts.

Melvin, 63, has served as Milwaukee’s GM since September of 2002. The Brewers finished under.

But maybe we, the fans who support you so generously, wanted to see the great players we’ve come to know and love finish this season and get the team as far as it could have gone yet this year.

Melvin dealt for starter Zack Greinke from Kansas City in the 2010 offseason, a move that bolstered the club’s rotation in the run to the playoffs the following year. Milwaukee was very close to making it to the World Series in 2011.

The Brewers are 48-65 this season after sustaining a collapse down the stretch in 2014 that cost them a playoff spot.

Regardless of market size, the Brewers draw well at Miller Park.

“Going into this year, over the last 10 years, we won more games than the San Francisco Giants”. It was his 17th multi-RBI game of the season.

“Why can’t these (stat) guys ever admit they’re wrong?” As a player, Melvin pitched for six seasons in the minors with the Pittsburgh Pirates and Yankees. Whoever the Brewers hire as the next general manager has a decent foundation with which to work.

One of his biggest moves was signing outfielder Ryan Braun to a $105 million, five-year extension in 2011 that linked him to the club through 2020.

Milwaukee Brewers manager Craig Counsell already has a job and isn’t interested in a new one anytime soon.

Melvin said he had made his decision to step down as GM at that time and worked out a plan with Attanasio.

“He’s been doing this a long time”, said Lucroy.

“He goes on gut feeling and stuff like that a lot. Mark and I talked about it a year ago”.

Wouldn’t it be the same for everybody if trading were prohibited until season’s end?

Melvin was inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in 2012.

Principal owner Mark Attanasio has hired a search firm to look for Melvin’s successor, likely a younger candidate with an analytics background.