Oakland Athletics Extend Manager Bob Melvin’s Contract by 2 Seasons

After guiding the Oakland Athletics to a startling American League West Division Championship and pushing the eventual A.L. Champion Detroit Tigers to the deciding game of the division series, Bob Melvin was given a two-year extension by the team, according to The San Jose Mercury News.

Melvin was named interim manager on June 9, 2011 after the Athletics let Bob Geren go after five and a half disappointing seasons. The team was gutted of many of their established major league pitchers between the 2011 and 2012 seasons an...

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