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Athletics Announce Contract Extensions For Billy Beane, David Forst, Bob
Melvin
By TC Zencka | October 29, 2018 at 11:41am CDT

The Oakland A’s announced new long-term deals today for Executive VP of
Baseball Ops Billy Beane, General Manager David Forst, and Manager Bob
Melvin, per a team report.

Melvin’s deal will take him through 2021 at about $3.5MM per season, which
puts him in the upper echelon of managers in terms of yearly salary, per
Susan Slusser of the San Francisco chronicle, who provides some of the
contract details. Forst is now signed through 2023, giving him another four
years as the Oakland GM. The length of Beane’s extension is as of yet
unknown, though the expectation is that he will be in Oakland for the
foreseeable future.

Extensions were expected for the Oakland trio after a surprising 97-65 record
took the team to the Wild Card game versus the Yankees despite fielding a
team with the lowest opening day payroll in the league. Faced with those
limited resources and a host of injuries, Beane, Forst and Melvin
frankensteined together a pitching staff from veteran castoffs and
reclamation projects like Edwin Jackson, Trevor Cahill and Brett Anderson.
Together with an offense powered by a defensive third basemen and the most
consistent hitter in baseball history, Oakland stormed past the Mariners to
place themselves in the elite class of American League contenders. With their
braintrust locked in, Oakland has achieved its primary goal of the offseason
and can now turn the trio’s attention toward building on their 2018 success
and staying atop a crowded AL West.

Beane was the GM of the A’s for 18 years before the promotion to his current
title in 2015. He has been named Executive of the Year twice by Baseball
America, twice by The Sporting News, as well as MLB.com’s Greatness in
Baseball Yearly (GIBBY) award as the 2012 MLB Executive of the Year. He is
most famous, of course, for launching the moneyball era of baseball
sabermetrics, but he continues to hunt for and find market inefficiencies
that help his Oakland A’s overcome the payroll disparity they face year in
and year out. He holds an ownership stake in the A’s, so it seems he is
secure in his role running the baseball ops department ad infinitum. Beane
signs this new deal as he wraps up the five-year deal he signed back in 2012.

Melvin is a two-time manager of the year recipient, most recently in 2012
with Oakland. He is third in franchise history with 634 wins, and it’s
certainly conceivable that he’ll pass Tony La Russa (798) for second on that
list before this new deal is done. Before the extension, Melvin had inked a
series of short-term arrangements, including when he and the club agreed to
tack on the 2019 season as the 2017 campaign drew to a close. Amazingly, this
season’s 22-win improvement is the third time Melvin has led a team to a
20-game improvement. He has been with the A’s since 2011, making the
playoffs four times in that span (2012, 2013, 2014, 2018).

It’s not entirely clear how Forst’s contract situation has been handled in
the past, but he has been with the Oakland organization for twenty years. He
served for twelve years as the assistant general manager before his promotion
to GM four years ago. He may not have as much name recognition as Billy
Beane, but Forst has long been a part of the braintrust in Oakland and seems
to be, like Beane, an Oakland lifer.


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