Bob Melvin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Bob Melvin

American baseball player and manager

Date of Birth: 28-Oct-1961

Place of Birth: Palo Alto, California, United States

Profession: baseball manager, baseball player

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Robert Paul Melvin (born October 28, 1961) is an American former professional baseball player and coach who is the manager of the Oakland Athletics of Major League Baseball (MLB).
He has been named Manager of the Year three times, most recently in 2018.
He is currently the longest-tenured manager in the MLB.
During a 10-year playing career from 1985 through 1994, Melvin was a catcher for the Detroit Tigers, San Francisco Giants, Baltimore Orioles, Kansas City Royals, Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, and Chicago White Sox.
In his managing career Melvin has led the Seattle Mariners (2003–04), Arizona Diamondbacks (2005–09), and Oakland Athletics (2011–present).
Melvin was named the National League Manager of the Year in 2007, and the American League Manager of the Year in both 2012 (becoming the 6th manager in history to win the award in both leagues) and in 2018 (becoming the 8th manager ever to win the award three or more times in a career).
Through 2019, his 731 Oakland wins were third-most in team history (behind Connie Mack and Tony La Russa), and he had an aggregate career record of 1,224-1,172 (.511) in 16 seasons as a Major League manager.Entering the 2020 MLB season, Melvin is the longest tenured manager in MLB with the same team after the retirement of Bruce Bochy, the long time manager of the San Francisco Giants, at the conclusion of the 2019 MLB season.