Earlier today, we learned the Brewers will conduct an offseason review of the club. Owner Mark Attanasio and GM Doug Melvin met with media moments ago to discuss the state of the franchise. As part of the press conference, we learned that Melvin’s job is safe, tweets Todd Rosiak of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
- Manager Ron Roenicke and the rest of the coaching staff will be evaluated after the season, according to Rosiak (also on Twitter). Melvin explained that the club will evaluate the team’s play at home (tweet). He also expressed some concern about clubhouse attitudes, saying, “I’m going find out about who cares about winning and losing (tweet).”
- Attanasio will also be involved in the evaluation process. He’ll meet with select players to learn what the club is missing, tweets Adam McCalvy of MLB.com. Per Attanasio, “if we’re not making any changes, we’d better have a damn good reason for why.”
- It’s been 11 years since the Marlins have reached the postseason, and club president David Samson views Giancarlo Stanton as crucial to an October return, writes Joe Frisaro of MLB.com. The Marlins, who haven’t seen postseason action since 2003, now possess the third longest playoff drought after the Blue Jays (1993) and Mariners (2001). As for locking up Stanton, Samson had this to say on the subject: “I’m very much looking forward to sitting down and talking to Giancarlo at the end of the season, which we promised to do and we want to do.”
No offense, but doesn’t every team conduct an offseason review? It’s really a non-story being reported as news by someone looking to fill lines.
I don’t think that the owner meets with the players in most cases.
Otherwise yes, every team has some sort of exit interviews.
Wow, Melvin must have quite the incriminating info on Mr Attanasio, or else he must have hacked into the Attanasios iCloud because he was ran from Texas for far, far less than what has happened in Milwaukee over the last couple years.
Melvin lost 180 games in his last 2 years in Texas. I wouldn’t consider that far, far less than what is going on in MKE.
Melvin talked about how they needed veterans like Overbay and Reynolds in part because they kept the atmosphere relaxed during tough times. Now he’s talking about players’ attitudes to losing. Is a player who is relaxed after losses, lacking in some way?
Setting aside the fact that every player wants to win, how would such a thing be measured? Even if their sole goal was to make more money, that would be achieved through performance.
Melvin is great at some things but that doesn’t include roster management, admitting mistakes and moving on and his fetish for the past fulfilled through old players.