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Brewers not pursuing Sherrill
I've seen a lot of national reports in recent days that indicate the Brewers are interested in trading for Baltimore closer George Sherrill, so I called general manager Doug Melvin to see what's going on. Melvin said he has not engaged the Orioles ...
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Pags: Doug Melvin Is The General Manager Of The Year
Former Yankee awards Brewers' GM Doug Melvin with an early GM of the year award, thanks to his acquisitions of Sabathia and Durham.

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Durham excited to join "great team"
San Francisco - I just spoke with Ray Durham outside of the Brewers' clubhouse at AT&T Park as he officially joined the Brewers. Durham said it was too weird to sit in the Giants dugout during the game, so he retreated to the clubhouse after ...
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Brewers probably looking at Street
San Francisco - Brewers general manager Doug Melvin told me earlier today that he wouldn't pay $2 million for "a tweak" in his bullpen. What about paying to acquire Oakland closer Huston Street? I just learned that Melvin's top special ...
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Brewers try out a new infield - Brewers Blog
When the Milwaukee Brewers return to Miller Park on July 25, they'll find new grass on the infield. Gary Vanden Berg, the team's chief groundskeeper, said Tuesday that the change to a new kind of bluegrass on the infield came about because players ...
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Sheets To Test Free Agency
Brewers ace Ben Sheets is in the midst of a monster contract year, and he's planning on testing the open market after the season.  The Brewers might've had a chance to sign him to an extension, but GM Doug Melvin decided to pass.  After ...
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 Ben Sheets Plans on Testing the Market
Ben Sheets Plans on Testing the Market
The Milwaukee Brewers signed their ace Ben Sheets to a four-year $38.5 million deal before the 2005 season started, and in the years since Sheets has spent a lot of his time earning that money on the disabled list. Last season, after spending the ...
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Melvin keeping "ears open" for trades
Phoenix - Brewers general manager Doug Melvin laughed this afternoon when I asked him if his team really was the leader in the C.C. Sabathia Sweepstakes. "Just the same old rumors," said Melvin. ESPN's Buster Olney has ranked ...
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Brewers Offering LaPorta In Possible Sabathia Deal
Brewers GM Doug Melvin told Tom Haudricourt of the Milwakee Journal Sentinel the team is in pursuit of C.C. Sabathia and has an offer on the table. Haudricourt thinks the Brewers' offer includes top prospect Matt LaPorta , minor-league third ...
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Brewers Call 11:00 AM CT Press Conference to Announce Sabathia Trade
The Milwaukee Brewers and Executive Vice President and General Manager Doug Melvin have just announced they will host a press conference today at Miller Park in the Media Interview Room at 11 a.m. CT to announce a baseball related transaction. Anyone want to guess what that will be :) I hope to talk to Matt LaPorta some time today.
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 “PTBNL”
“PTBNL”
Buckle up, Tribe fans. That simple acronym in the title is something that you’re bound to see and hear an awful lot about over the foreseeable future. The missing information on the C.C. Sabathia deal that we’ve talked about nearly all day long - and possibly the most important part - is that Player to be Named Later...
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Melvin Cements Status As One Of MLB's Best GM's
   I have long said I believe Doug Melvin is one of the top General Managers in the game today, and the successful completion of the Sabathia-for-LaPorta deal is further evidence of that.  Melvin just turned a draft pick with less than ...
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 Melvin 'going for it' with Sabathia trade | Brewers.com: News
Melvin 'going for it' with Sabathia trade | Brewers.com: News
MILWAUKEE -- Three months from now, Doug Melvin might be known fondly as the general manager who ended the Brewers' 26-year postseason drought. > There's an equal chance that, three years from now, he'll be known not-so-fondly as the bum who traded ...
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 CC Sabathia and 50 Year Old Women Have Something New in Common
CC Sabathia and 50 Year Old Women Have Something New in Common
Everyone around baseball has been buzzing about the big change for Carsten Charles Sabathia; no, I don’t mean the trade that sent Mr. Sabathia from the Indians to the Milwaukee Brewers, that’s old news. At his introductory news ...
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CC Sabathia Stats, News, Photos - Milwaukee Brewers
Jayson Stark, MLB Podcast in ESPN.com (2 hours ago) With Sabathia, the Brewers are the team you don't want to play in October. But Jayson still thinks the Cubs are the deepest team. Timing for both sides was key in this deal. Jayson says there aren't ...
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Punctuation purge: Sabathia ditches dots in 'C.C.' - MLB - Yahoo! Sports
MILWAUKEE (AP)—Write an e-mail and cc it all around baseball: New Milwaukee Brewers pitcher CC Sabathia no longer wants periods after the initials he uses for his first name. From here on out, Carsten Charles Sabathia is just “CC” Sabathia—not ...
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Eric Byrnes Possibly Out For The Season
Not that he was producing that much, but Eric Byrnes may be done for the year according to the Arizona Republic . Byrnes, who has a strained left hamstring, will have an MRI on Thursday. Melvin said that he thought Byrnes would avoid surgery, but ...