33 Quotes by Doug Melvin

Brady has showed us he can play center field every day. Now, with this deal, we can look at some other players in center in spring training without him feeling he has to look over his shoulder.

Billy will find his way. Every year he seems to get his 400 or so at-bats. Things will work themselves out there.

Sometimes, you have to meet face-to-face to get things done. It forces the issue.

Santana pitched well for us. He got a big out for us in Pittsburgh when we won our 81st game. But he has had some injury problems and we think we have some other options.

People didn't really take us seriously as a wild-card contender last year, whether it was because of our $42 million payroll or because we were the Brewers. But we want the expectations to be higher. We've raised the bar here.

That's my feeling. We should get it done soon.

They're supposed to come here March 5. I told them we'd explore it. That doesn't mean it will happen but we said we'd look at it.

There were one or two times we were prepared to send him out but we backed off. Ned had confidence in him and it paid off in the end.

There's a lot of pride involved. I think that's why Ben feels he'd like to play.