Kevin Towers

by jbox on Nov 27, 2009 8:51 AM PST 4 comments Kevin Towers, fired last month as the Padres' general manager, told ESPN that he will meet with the Yankees, Mets, Red Sox and Mariners at the winter meetings in Indianapolis and decide which...

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...could disrupt it would be some kind of big change in the front office ... oh, wait. Normally, a switch from longtime general manager Kevin Towers to someone else could throw things into disarray down on the farm. But Wickham thinks there was...

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...in 2009 and after a mediocre first year of the five-year rebuilding process, a new front office staff is in place. Gone is Kevin Towers as GM, as new majority owner Jeff Moorad hired 35-year-old Jed Hoyer, a Theo Epstein protege...

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...chair at a J Street coffee shop, betraying no more urgency than a fifth-grader contemplating his homework on a Friday night. Kevin Towers had little choice but to trade Peavy to any club that could pick up the payments. But in trading Peavy...

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...got full rein," Bell, who was in Boston recently on business, tells the Herald. "I hope he does. I know Kevin Towers didn't always have it. He'd want to do something and the CEO wouldn't always sign off on it. "I'd like to see the team say,...

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So there could be some wiggle room to pursue free agents, something that new Padres general manager Jed Hoyer's predecessor, Kevin Towers, didn't always have such a luxury of. A year ago, Towers signed veterans Cliff Floyd, Eckstein and Henry...

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...been decent in defense. -- Tom G., Chicago We'll have to see what new general manager Jed Hoyer wants to do here, though I know Kevin Towers, the outgoing GM, wanted to potentially get a left-handed-hitting catcher during the offseason.

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...a new director of scouting, cash, a crock of baked beans and a bowl of chowder. 2. Sporting News names fired Padres General Manager Kevin Towers its Executive Chef of the Year "for his uncanny ability to make tuna salad out of stuff found on...

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...you're not going to get optimal value. "Right now, this offseason, is when the Padres could make the biggest impact on their future. Kevin Towers made a great deal with the White Sox for Jake Peavy. Jed is a new GM. So he's either going to...

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...agent and trade rumblings. This October was no different. Let's take a look at 10 things we learned about baseball in October. 10. Kevin Towers and J.P. Ricciardi Were Let Go In San Diego and Toronto the general managers were fired.

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