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MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Hall of Famer Robin Yount is returning to the Milwaukee Brewers as bench coach.
Yount spent his entire 20-year playing career with Milwaukee. The Brewers have tried to get him to return since he retired as a player in 1994, but Yount had preferred to stay around his home in Scottsdale, Ariz.
``Any discussion of the Milwaukee Brewers great tradition starts with Robin Yount,'' general manager Doug Melvin said Friday. ``For 20 seasons he was one of the game's most consistent performers and he's added to his legacy by becoming one of the game's top coaches.''
Yount, the first Brewer elected to baseball's Hall of Fame, returned to baseball as bench coach with Arizona in 2002. He resigned when the Diamondbacks fired manager Bob Brenly in July 2004.
The Brewers, in their first season under the ownership of Los Angeles investor Mark Attanasio, were 81-81 this year, their first non-losing season since 1992. They fired third-base coach Rich Donnelly and bench coach Rich Dauer.
Yount, a first-ballot Hall of Fame inductee, made his major league debut as an 18-year-old shortstop in 1974. The two-time AL MVP played 2,856 games, batting .285 with 251 homers and 1,406 RBIs.
He leads Milwaukee's career lists in games, homers, RBIs, at-bats, hits, runs, doubles and triples.
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Hall of Famer Robin Yount is returning to the Milwaukee Brewers as bench coach.
Yount spent his entire 20-year playing career with Milwaukee. The Brewers have tried to get him to return since he retired as a player in 1994, but Yount had preferred to stay around his home in Scottsdale, Ariz.
``Any discussion of the Milwaukee Brewers great tradition starts with Robin Yount,'' general manager Doug Melvin said Friday. ``For 20 seasons he was one of the game's most consistent performers and he's added to his legacy by becoming one of the game's top coaches.''
Yount, the first Brewer elected to baseball's Hall of Fame, returned to baseball as bench coach with Arizona in 2002. He resigned when the Diamondbacks fired manager Bob Brenly in July 2004.
The Brewers, in their first season under the ownership of Los Angeles investor Mark Attanasio, were 81-81 this year, their first non-losing season since 1992. They fired third-base coach Rich Donnelly and bench coach Rich Dauer.
Yount, a first-ballot Hall of Fame inductee, made his major league debut as an 18-year-old shortstop in 1974. The two-time AL MVP played 2,856 games, batting .285 with 251 homers and 1,406 RBIs.
He leads Milwaukee's career lists in games, homers, RBIs, at-bats, hits, runs, doubles and triples.