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Athletics Extend Bob Melvin

By Connor Byrne and Steve Adams | September 28, 2017 at 3:05pm CDT

The Athletics and manager Bob Melvin have agreed to a one-year extension, the team announced this afternoon. Melvin is now under contract through 2019, joining executive vice president of baseball operations Billy Beane and general manager David Forst. He’d previously been under contract through the completion of the 2018 season, so this new agreement will prevent him from entering the 2018 campaign as a dreaded “lame duck” manager with just a year to go on his deal.

Bob Melvin | Kelley L Cox-USA TODAY Sports

Melvin, 55, is wrapping up his 14th season as a Major League manager and his seventh at the helm for the Athletics. He’s previously managed the Mariners (2003-04) and Diamondbacks (2005-09), and as the A’s point out in their press release, he’s one of just seven managers in baseball history to win Manager of the Year honors in both the American League (2012 with the A’s) and the National League (2007 with the Diamondbacks). Overall, Melvin has a career record of 1028-1040 as a manager, though he’s presided over a number of A’s teams that haven’t necessarily been in “win-now” mode.

The 2017 season was one of those years, as Oakland entered the season with a number of stopgaps among its position-player ranks as the team waited for the arrival of a wave of young talent. Veterans like Trevor Plouffe, Rajai Davis, Stephen Vogt and Yonder Alonso eventually gave way to an impressive bumper crop of young talent, however — a group that the A’s hope will form the nucleus of their next contending club.

Corner infielders Matt Olson and Matt Chapman have made the biggest impact in the Majors (Olson with his bat, Chapman more with his glove), but the team has also welcomed the likes of Franklin Barreto, Ryon Healy, Bruce Maxwell and Jaycob Brugman into more prominent roles.

Melvin will be tasked with helping to hone the skills of that potential core group, as Oakland looks to put its current 73-85 record in the rear-view mirror in future seasons and return to contention in what was one of Major League Baseball’s most top-heavy divisions in 2017.

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  1. SundownDevil

    3 years ago

    Thanks Connor. Nice concise article. We need more that get to the point, rather than the “analysis” and excess opinions.

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    • baseball10

      3 years ago

      The info is typically always given in the first paragraph. Meaning you don’t have to read past that in other articles. If that’s a serious complaint u may have some issues to work out

      8 Like
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    • PasswordIsPassword

      3 years ago

      “I want less content.”

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    • Steve Adams

      3 years ago

      With breaking news, we pretty much always post the first sentence in the name of timeliness and then fill in the rest of the content.

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    • bigcubsfan

      3 years ago

      If you are concerned about Bob Melvin, you should discount prices on furniture at Bob’s Furniture. HaBOB habeeb habeebo nehoy nehoy yeebershwargen

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      • bigcubsfan

        3 years ago

        Boyum, you crazy?

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  2. acarneglia

    3 years ago

    It was definitely a good idea to bring Melvin back. Young teams like the A’s need continuity.

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    • RiverCatsFilms

      3 years ago

      “He could even be the mayor of Oakland one day!”

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      • SmittyFubar

        3 years ago

        bring in the lefty

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      • SmittyFubar

        3 years ago

        “Bring in the lefty”

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    • wkkortas

      3 years ago

      I’m not sure anyone needs continual 75-win seasons, which the A’s organization seems perfectly content with.

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  3. ReverieDays

    3 years ago

    The A’s are never in “win-now” mode because their GM is a stooge who sells his best young players the moment they get good.

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    • Michael

      3 years ago

      If he had more money to work with he probably wouldn’t do that though. So blame the owners, their stadium situation and playing second fiddle to the Giants in their share of the Bay Area market.

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      • empiresam

        3 years ago

        If and when they get their new stadium, BB should be held accountable. The fact that his team at times has made the pläyoffs has been remarkable. Same with Tampa. Going to college almost 40 years ago, i loved that ballpark. Cheap available prime seats and the first premium stadium sound system. Too bad i think it’s pretty much the same today…

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  4. rycm131

    3 years ago

    He’s a beast! Definitely moving In the right direction to get him on board. He’ll turn them around

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  5. julyn82001

    3 years ago

    Love it. This is the Manager the A’s have to have no doubt. Knowledgeable and affable with his players, BoMel is just an incredible skipper. Hopefully, the young core of players can now pan out for 2018 and beyond and if given the necessary resources to Billy Bean then he can pull one of those incredible trades, bold or whatever…

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    • ukJaysfan

      3 years ago

      BoMel??? Please tell me that’s not a thing.

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