Kevin Towers
Kevin Towers
Kevin S. Towersis an American executive in Major League Baseball. He served as the General Manager of the San Diego Padres from 1995 to 2009 and for the Arizona Diamondbacks from 2010 to 2014...
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Mike Piazza is one of the greatest-hitting catchers in the history of baseball and has his name written all over the major league record books. This is an exciting addition to our club and we are thrilled to see him add to those numbers while wearing a Padres uniform.
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After what I went through with Arizona, the last four or five days, they were crazy with all the speculation out there. I don't think it was fair to this organization. One thing I want to make clear is that I wasn't throwing my name out there. It got to the point where it didn't stop.
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I think we know what intangibles that people with the last name of Hoffman bring to the ballpark. This guy knows the NL West very well. He's managed before. He's been a former player. He's driven, organized and has those 'Hoffman' intangibles that we look for.
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Any time you lose exclusivity on a player, there's always that chance you'll lose him. But he's a guy who loves this organization and means so much to the city. As he's often said, he's one of the few guys who plays for the name on the front of his jersey, not the one on the back.
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He pitches for the name on the front of the jersey and not on the back. And you don't see that too often.
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We lose a little bit of leverage now. People realize he doesn't quite fit for us. It ties our hands a little bit.
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We feel we have a lot of depth at both corner spots. We think we'll improve our production at the corners.
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We felt we had a chance to compete based on the rest of the division,
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The smell of champagne in a clubhouse is a great thing, ... regardless of how you get there.
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The way I look at it, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to leave (the offer) out there for other teams to beat.
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The way he handled himself during adverse times, his poise, man, there's not many like him.
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Fans want to have a chance in the playoffs,
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Ramon is not an easy guy to replace. We plan to get our offense elsewhere. I've heard the criticism about our catching. These guys are not chopped liver.
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Brian spent little time on the disabled list. We looked at 200 innings and at least 30 starts.