Mel Queen dead at 69
Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 4:44 pm
Blue Jays player development sr advisor Mel Queen dies at 69. He was a big part of franchise's growth
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RIP Mel.
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RIP Mel.
Re: Mel Queen dead at 69
Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 5:48 pm
Huge loss. He basically re-made Roy Halladay after he was demoted to single A. He was a big influence on Carpenter and many other home-grown pitchers. He was a big fan of Aaron Sanchez and I was looking forward to him grooming Sanchez as our next great starter. RIP, Mel.
Re: Mel Queen dead at 69
Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 6:03 pm
rest in peace
Re: Mel Queen dead at 69
Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 6:22 pm
Very sad; Mel was a great coach and a mainstay in our organization.
Re: Mel Queen dead at 69
Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 7:09 pm
Here is a nice article about Queen's influence on Halladay, written about 7 months ago.
http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/ne ... 2&c_id=phi
http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/ne ... 2&c_id=phi
Re: Mel Queen dead at 69
Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 7:13 pm
this is sad news. RIP Mel Queen.
Re: Mel Queen dead at 69
Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 11:28 pm
this is sad news. RIP Mel Queen.
Re: Mel Queen dead at 69
Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 11:47 pm
RIP Mel Queen.
Re: Mel Queen dead at 69
Posted: Sat May 14, 2011 2:16 am
The veteran coach started by telling Halladay he was “stupid.” Then he ran a virtual boot camp for Halladay, rebuilding his delivery, teaching him new grips for his pitches and helping him develop a new mental approach.
“There’s no one I made that drastic a change to and verbally abused the way I did Doc,” Queen said after Halladay won his first Cy Young Award in 2003.
“There aren’t many people that would have gone through what I put him through. I had to make him understand that he was very unintelligent about baseball. He had no idea about the game.”
http://sports.nationalpost.com/2011/05/13/mel-queen-former-jays-coach-dies-at-69/
Re: Mel Queen dead at 69
Posted: Sat May 14, 2011 5:20 pm
@Shawngreen15 had this to say about Queen today on twitter:
"I just heard that my former Blue Jays coach Mel Queen died. A great friend and the wisest baseball man I met in 16 years in baseball."
High praise from a good hitter.
"I just heard that my former Blue Jays coach Mel Queen died. A great friend and the wisest baseball man I met in 16 years in baseball."
High praise from a good hitter.
Re: Mel Queen dead at 69
Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 4:15 am
sad
Re: Mel Queen dead at 69
Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 11:06 am
To this day, he remains the Blue Jays Manager with the greatest winning % in our team's history. And he will likely have that record for as long as the Jays are around.
At the end of the 1997 season, Cito was fired with 5 games to go. Queen bravely took over the team and led them to a 4-1 record.
It's sad when the athletes/managers you followed as a kid start to die...I guess that's just life.
At the end of the 1997 season, Cito was fired with 5 games to go. Queen bravely took over the team and led them to a 4-1 record.
It's sad when the athletes/managers you followed as a kid start to die...I guess that's just life.