Kevin Towers

The San Diego Padres have hired Jed Hoyer as their general manager, a person with knowledge of the situation said Saturday. The person spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the formal announcement won't be until Monday. Hoyer, who was in Boston's front office when the Red Sox won the World Series in 2004 and 2007, is due in San Diego today. The 35-year-old Hoyer emerged as a favorite immediately after Padres Chief Executive Jeff Moorad fired Kevin Towers during the last weekend of the regular season.

The San Diego Padres have hired Jed Hoyer as their general manager, a person with knowledge of the situation said Saturday. The person spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the formal announcement won't be until Monday. Hoyer, who was in Boston's front office when the Red Sox won the World Series in 2004 and 2007, is due in San Diego today. The 35-year-old Hoyer emerged as a favorite immediately after Padres Chief Executive Jeff Moorad fired Kevin Towers during the last weekend of the regular season.

"He's very emotional, not your typical starter. He has a little Mark Fidrych in him, a little Turk Wendell, stuff he does before he takes the mound. After an inning he's not afraid to stare into the other dugout and pump his fist." Kevin Towers, San Diego Padre general manager, on Jared Weaver, expected to be one of the first picks in today's baseball draft

Towers falls in San Diego The contracts of Ned Colletti, Dan O'Dowd and Brian Sabean all expire after the season. Yet the National League West general manager now out of work is the dean of them all. The San Diego Padres, under the new ownership of a group led by Jeff Moorad, fired Kevin Towers on Saturday. Moorad, who previously ran the Diamondbacks, could import Jerry DiPoto or Peter Woodfork from Arizona. The two longest-tenured general managers in baseball were Towers, hired by the Padres in 1994, and Sabean, hired by the San Francisco Giants in 1996.

Towers falls in San Diego The contracts of Ned Colletti, Dan O'Dowd and Brian Sabean all expire after the season. Yet the National League West general manager now out of work is the dean of them all. The San Diego Padres, under the new ownership of a group led by Jeff Moorad, fired Kevin Towers on Saturday. Moorad, who previously ran the Diamondbacks, could import Jerry DiPoto or Peter Woodfork from Arizona. The two longest-tenured general managers in baseball were Towers, hired by the Padres in 1994, and Sabean, hired by the San Francisco Giants in 1996.

Kevin Towers, the San Diego Padres' first-round draft pick in 1982, became their general manager Friday. Towers, the club's scouting director since August 1993, was given a two-year contract with a club option for 1998. He replaces Randy Smith, who left in October and has become the Detroit Tigers' general manager. Before becoming Padre scouting director, Towers was a regional and national scout with the Pittsburgh Pirates and an area scout for the Padres.

All of you who believed the Dodgers would be one game under .500 and in third place in the National League West on June 9, raise your hands. I see one hand there in the back. Your name, sir? "Kevin Towers." That's the San Diego Padre general manager who reacted to L.A. counterpart Kevin Malone's optimism--delusions of grandeur?--by declaring even before spring training that the Dodgers were no better than the third-best team in the division.

San Diego Padres General Manager Kevin Towers received a two-year contract extension Wednesday that runs through 2010 and is thought to put him among the top five or six highest-paid GMs in baseball. The team wouldn't divulge financial details. This off-season, Towers, 46, became the longest-tenured active GM in the big leagues with 12 years. His current deal was set to end after the 2008 season.

On the West Coast, you're on the clock from the moment you wake up. The trade deadline hits at 1 p.m. our time, time enough for a cup of coffee and a few hours of chaos. Kevin Towers, the general manager of the San Diego Padres, awoke Friday at 6 a.m. He had been at his Petco Park office until midnight, and he was back in the office at 7 a.m. Six hours to the deadline, and Towers thought he had a pretty good idea of what might happen.

Kevin Towers, the San Diego Padre general manager, cast himself into baseball's steroid furor by revealing he'd had dark suspicions about Ken Caminiti, and was called with a handful of fellow executives before the House Government Reform Committee. Steroids, as it turned out, were not Caminiti's ruin. Five months after his friend had died in a drug-ridden quarter of the Bronx, Towers would sit before Congress to take questions about the steroid era, as a face on the Caminiti experience.

On the West Coast, you're on the clock from the moment you wake up. The trade deadline hits at 1 p.m. our time, time enough for a cup of coffee and a few hours of chaos. Kevin Towers, the general manager of the San Diego Padres, awoke Friday at 6 a.m. He had been at his Petco Park office until midnight, and he was back in the office at 7 a.m. Six hours to the deadline, and Towers thought he had a pretty good idea of what might happen.

San Diego Padres General Manager Kevin Towers received a two-year contract extension Wednesday that runs through 2010 and is thought to put him among the top five or six highest-paid GMs in baseball. The team wouldn't divulge financial details. This off-season, Towers, 46, became the longest-tenured active GM in the big leagues with 12 years. His current deal was set to end after the 2008 season.

Kevin Towers, the San Diego Padre general manager, cast himself into baseball's steroid furor by revealing he'd had dark suspicions about Ken Caminiti, and was called with a handful of fellow executives before the House Government Reform Committee. Steroids, as it turned out, were not Caminiti's ruin. Five months after his friend had died in a drug-ridden quarter of the Bronx, Towers would sit before Congress to take questions about the steroid era, as a face on the Caminiti experience.

"He's very emotional, not your typical starter. He has a little Mark Fidrych in him, a little Turk Wendell, stuff he does before he takes the mound. After an inning he's not afraid to stare into the other dugout and pump his fist." Kevin Towers, San Diego Padre general manager, on Jared Weaver, expected to be one of the first picks in today's baseball draft

All of you who believed the Dodgers would be one game under .500 and in third place in the National League West on June 9, raise your hands. I see one hand there in the back. Your name, sir? "Kevin Towers." That's the San Diego Padre general manager who reacted to L.A. counterpart Kevin Malone's optimism--delusions of grandeur?--by declaring even before spring training that the Dodgers were no better than the third-best team in the division.

Kevin Towers, the San Diego Padres' first-round draft pick in 1982, became their general manager Friday. Towers, the club's scouting director since August 1993, was given a two-year contract with a club option for 1998. He replaces Randy Smith, who left in October and has become the Detroit Tigers' general manager. Before becoming Padre scouting director, Towers was a regional and national scout with the Pittsburgh Pirates and an area scout for the Padres.

Jim Leyland isn't considering retiring. The Colorado Rockies manager is retiring. He is giving up $4 million over the next two years to spend more time with his wife, Katie, and their two children at their home in Pittsburgh. He may accept a less demanding position with the Rockies, but this won't be like 1996, when he left the Pirates to manage the Florida Marlins, or last winter, when he left the Marlins to manage the Rockies.

Phil Nevin, who resurrected his career with the San Diego Padres, agreed to a $34-million, four-year contract extension, the richest deal in club history. Nevin batted .306 with 41 home runs and 121 RBIs. ... The Baltimore Orioles are trying to trade outfielder Brady Anderson, and will likely release him if they can't find a taker by Tuesday. ... Outfielder Michael Tucker exercised his option and will return to the Chicago Cubs next season for $2.25 million. ...