Dave Dombrowski and Doug Melvin win Sporting News' MLB Executive of the Year Award – MLB News
The Detroit Tigers’ GM Dave Dombrowski and Milwaukee Brewers’ GM Doug Melvin have won mutual honours of Sporting News’ Major League Baseball Executive of the Year Award receiving 13 votes each.
Both GM’s played a key role in their respective teams during the 2011 season and were spot-on with their decisions making skills. Many baseball experts say that both truly deserved the award and displayed some good leadership skills.
Every aspect of their managerial skill was observed during the voting. The Brewers’ GM Melvin, who was little strict while making potential trades and on the other hand Dombrowski took full advantage of free agent market last season and added some very good
players that eventually proved wonderful for the Tigers.
If compared to the level of success both had during the last season people would agree Melvin and Dombrowski shared the same level of hard work and remained persistent with their commitments.
Melvin, who brought two vital players Nyjer Morgan from the Washington Nationals and Francisco Rodriguez into the Brewers roster which are now completely adjusted with the team environment and producing good results for Milwaukee.
Dombrowski, however, signed hitter Victor Martinez and Joaquin Benoit. He later went on to sign Doug Fister that is now well settled.
Apart from winning the award, recently both attended the annual GM’s meeting in Milwaukee and made spirited remarks for the next season. This is sure that the next season will be competitive for every team. Dombrowski was little more determined to talk about
the success of his team against some very tough opponents.
The Tigers stood tall in the post-season against every team and especially winning the Division title was a great achievement itself and later they displayed a huge match-up against the Texas Rangers in the American League Championship Series but lost in
the end. It’s true the defeat left them frustrated but later they understood the spirit of the game while playing, one has to lose.
Overall both general managers have a huge role shaping-up their teams and got what they truly deserved in the end winning this precious SN Executive of the Year Award.
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