Sveum not in consideration to be manager. Melvin gets a 3 year extension.
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Full Version: Brewers Not Bringing Sveum Back as Manager
Wow. Thanks for nothing Dale.
I guess he was supposed to get all their idiot hitters to not swing at shit out of the strike zone in the 2 weeks he was at the helm.
I guess he was supposed to get all their idiot hitters to not swing at shit out of the strike zone in the 2 weeks he was at the helm.
12 games and a playoff. I think that's got to be the shortest tenure for a playoff manager.
Among the rumored managerial replacements: Buck Showalter, Bob Brenly and Ken Macha. I'm really hoping it's the latter so we'll never again have to see or hear him in the NESN studios. He sounds like a cross between Walpole Joe Morgan and Beano Cook, with a little Coach K thrown in.
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Other possible candidates might be former Los Angeles and Pittsburgh manager Jim Tracy and former Boston/Los Angeles manager Grady Little, as well as Willie Randolph, fired this year by the Mets, and former big league skipper Davey Johnson, who piloted Team USA in the Olympics.
From people I've talked to, all of those possible candidates have a desire to return to managing in the big leagues.
The Brewers also announced that hitting coach Jim Skaalen was not being retained. There was no announcement on the other coaches: pitching coach Mike Maddux, bullpen coach Bill Castro and first base coach Ed Sedar, meaning they might be retained, depending on whom is hired as new manager.
Skaalen obviously paid the price for an offense that disappeared in September, causing the Brewers to almost miss the playoffs and resulting in the firing of Yost. The offense never got back on track and was almost completely reliant on home runs to score.
Garth Iorg coached third base after Sveum became interim manager and probably will return to his instructing duties in the farm system. Robin Yount, who served as bench coach for Sveum, will not be back in that capacity, especially now that his good friend has been bypassed for the managerial job.
From people I've talked to, all of those possible candidates have a desire to return to managing in the big leagues.
The Brewers also announced that hitting coach Jim Skaalen was not being retained. There was no announcement on the other coaches: pitching coach Mike Maddux, bullpen coach Bill Castro and first base coach Ed Sedar, meaning they might be retained, depending on whom is hired as new manager.
Skaalen obviously paid the price for an offense that disappeared in September, causing the Brewers to almost miss the playoffs and resulting in the firing of Yost. The offense never got back on track and was almost completely reliant on home runs to score.
Garth Iorg coached third base after Sveum became interim manager and probably will return to his instructing duties in the farm system. Robin Yount, who served as bench coach for Sveum, will not be back in that capacity, especially now that his good friend has been bypassed for the managerial job.
Poor Dale never really got a full shot here. He got the brewers out of the slump and into the play offs.
I say we bring him back and have him coach first base.
I say we bring him back and have him coach first base.
QUOTE(RADdogg @ Oct 22 2008, 07:39 PM) 
Poor Dale never really got a full shot here.
So what you're saying is the Brewers sent Sveum home when they shouldn't have?
QUOTE(RADdogg @ Oct 22 2008, 06:39 PM)
Poor Dale never really got a full shot here. He got the brewers out of the slump and into the play offs.
I say we bring him back and have him coach first base.
I say we bring him back and have him coach first base.
Dale will be returning as Milwaukee's hitting coach.
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