Bob Melvin
Bob Melvin
Robert Paul Melvinis an American professional baseball catcher, coach, and manager. He is currently the manager of the Oakland Athletics of Major League Baseball...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth28 October 1961
CityPalo Alto, CA
added gets good middle power pull stayed
He stayed up the middle with a couple, which is good to see, ... Sometimes he gets a little too pull happy, with the added power he has.
kept
He's a four-pitch pitcher. He mixes it up well, and he kept us off-balance.
career pitch walk
His whole career is he'll walk some guys, but he makes the big pitch to get out of the inning.
crowds good last runs scoring struggled year
It's good. We've struggled all year here, especially scoring runs and getting anything going. We had some pretty good, enthusiastic crowds the last two days, and it was good to put on a good show for them.
admit happen pitching start tough weigh
He got off to a tough start. And having that big contract, pitching at home, can sometimes weigh on you. I don't think he'd admit that, but you really want to start things right, especially being back home, with a new team. And that didn't happen for him.
refuse
I've never said anything disparaging about Wally Backman and I refuse to do so now.
games great point position season time
We're still in a position where we don't think we're out of it. We haven't had a great year, but if you look at it, we're 6 1/2 games back at this point in time in the season and you still feel like you've got a chance.
certainly meant middle minimize
What he's meant to us and what he does in the middle of games, you certainly can't minimize that.
When we got up there in big situations, ... we weren't very good.
baseball our-lives
We're playing for our lives now.
certainly experience gain guys handle looking talking watching
We wouldn't have him here if we didn't think he could handle it. Just talking to him and looking at him, he certainly doesn't look like an 18-year-old. He can gain a lot of experience just talking with these guys and watching how they play the game.