Yesterday, Kevin Towers was a long standing Gm in baseball in the 14th year with North park as their GM. Today that mantle belongs to someone else as Kevin Towers continues to be sacked as GM from the Padres.
It was not utterly unexpected given the new alternation in ownership and the record by the Padres over the past couple seasons, 99 lo ses last year and between 86 and 88 this year, with a bleak outlook for the following couple seasons as
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Towers has continued to make some shrewd trades, the hallmark of his tenure, just this season unloading Jake Peavy and the
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Under Towers, the Padres won the NL West in 1996, 1998, 2005 and 2006. Additionally they game oh so close to making the postseason in 2007, losing a heartbreaking 13-inning tiebreaker game at Colorado in which they had a two run lead in the bottom of the 13th. The Padres made the planet Series in 1998, only to be swept by the Yankees. They was 1107-1159 while Towers was GM.
Who is going to walk into Towers role? Obviously the first speculation is likely to point at A sistant GM Paul DePodesta, who certainly deserves another shot after being railroaded out of La. For the few devout Padres fans out there, hope they dont use the direction of Randy Smith, former GM (he was actually the GM before
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