Kevin Towers Left His Imprint on The Padres

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Yet even though the Padres finished strong in 2009, the firing of General Manager Kevin Towers by the new chief executive, Jeff Moorad, fed the perception that the team was in trouble. Also, only one returning starter, Kevin Correia, threw 100 innings for the Padres last season. They were easy to overlook.
“I expected everybody not to think we were good,” closer Heath Bell said. “I expected us to be real good, which we are. People writing us off, it didn’t bother me a bit, not one bit, because I knew at the end of September and October, they were going to such as fashion jewellery,women's jewellery.You can wholesale jewellery.start talking about us because we were that good.”
Jed Hoyer, the new general manager, has hit on almost every move, with bargain acquisitions last winter like Jon Garland, Jerry Hairston Jr., Scott Hairston and Yorvit Torrealba, and deadline deals that added Miguel Tejada and Ryan Ludwick to the lineup.
Giants Manager Bruce Bochy, who managed the Padres from 1995 to 2006, was asked Friday if it surprised him to see his old team add payroll at midseason, which it did not always do for his teams.
“They’ve had a couple of tough years there,” Bochy said. “You want to get your fans back. You want to win. I’m not surprised.”