Olney: Towers expected to work for Yanks as a consultant
ByFinally, we have some news on the Kevin Towers front. In today’s blog, Buster Olney wrote that the former Padres’ GM is expected to work with the Yanks this year, however it would be as a consultant and he would not be given a formal title. San Diego still owes Towers about $2M for 2010, and if the Yanks were to hire him and given him a title, they’d be at risk of having to pay him out of their pocket. Obviously, it makes sense for both sides to work out a consulting agreement.
We heard that Towers was “leaning towards” joining his good buddy Brian Cashman in the Yanks’ front office way back in early January, and he indicated that he was happy to serve in a complementary role. It’s seems now that it’s only a matter of time before he joins the organization, and the more voices the better.
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Right, let San Diego continue to pay him 2M while the Yankees give him an expense account and he can charge them whatever consultant fees for the work he does for them in 2010.
Cashman: Pimp of the Year
Cashman: Pimp of the Year Century
It may be not true for everyone else, but for me, pimpin’ is easy.
Sincerely,
Brian Cashman
Kevin Towers’s first order of business:
Sign Kenny Powers.
The Yankees’ answer to Casey Kelly (who I just heard talk on the radio, he’s not Sidd Finch after all, he exists!)
Why do you keep making jokes about Casey Kelly? The guy is a really, really good pitching prospect.
He’s the best pitching prospect of all time!!!
I know he is. But he’s not the 2nd coming, that’s Melvin.
I think a lot of it has to do with you living in the New England area.
You get tired of all the hype.
Kevin Towers’ second order of business:
Bring Melvin to America.
You bring Melvin to America, you bring America to Melvin.
“Alright everyone, thank you all for showing up to the town meeting. Our first order of work has been scheduled…’Take down town meeting sign in road.’ Alright then, see everybody at our next town meeting…thanks again for showing up”
You’re fucking out!
Not too shabby, adding to the braintrust.
Let’s do backflips over a guy who built the Padres into one of the worst teams in the game. And quite possibly the worst farm system going too.
Heh. I love you Bo. You always know how to make a good thing seem bad.
For the bazillionth time, the GM does not manage the farm system.
Obviously, the general manager manages generals.
Boversimplification is an art form.
(grins)
Yay! I witnessed it.
Wouldn’t you of all people be happy? I mean I always thought you were those ‘fire everyone!’ people.
I think the Yanks should have a rule: Anyone ever associated with a losing team cannot be a Yankee employee. That means Tex, A Rod, Swisher and Granderson all must be traded immediately. And Joe Girardi must be fired (after all, he had a losing record in his one year with the Marlins).
And by no means are we to consider that the Padres payroll was essentially the daily take at the Starbucks in Penn Station. That cannot be considered at all.
I’m going to dig up Casey Stengel and kill him again for sucking so bad with the Brooklyn Dodgers and Boston Bees of the 1930s and early 1940s.
That putz is never going to amount to shit.
Vacate the Torre era wins because of his previous managing “success”
Towers? More like Wowers!
god this was lame…. yet i still chuckled
The Adrian Gonzalez deal was an absolute steal
The 1996 and 1998 San Diego Padres were quite good teams.
Towers had a decent little run until the Friars ran out of cash and had to sell everything off.
Towers had a decent little run until the Friars ran out of cash and had to sell everything off.
Looks like the friars were trying almost anything to get some more money before they made the move…
http://cache3.asset-cache.net/.....78A68B340C (SAFE)
Who’s he with, the House of David?
All in all 4 NL West titles isn’t too shabby.
Nothing worth doing backflips over.
/Boversimplified
As Larry David would say.. pretty good. Pretty… pretty good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Towers had a decent little run until the Friars ran out of cash and had to sell everything. off.
TOMMIE! quit that!
let’s make a deal…you go a season without ending a sentence in a preposition, and i’ll work out a way for you to get one of these:
http://www.brandjerseys.com/go.....rseys.html
(sfw)
So much for the Travis Buck LF option…
http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/.....-cust.html
Maybe Towers can consult us on a better option?
1. Like the end to try and keep it on topic
2. Wouldn’t that still keep Buck available?
Good to hear. I’ve been wondering about this for quite some time now.
Me too, Mike. I’m glad he’s aboard, however stealthily he’ll be working. He’s one cook who’s not going to spoil the broth.
I enjoyed the analogy.
I’d say he’s our answer to Bill James…but then again there’s no comparison.
Excellent, Towers is a good pitching evaluator. Those are great to have around.
Anyone complaining about this is crazy, Brian Sabean is a bad GM but he was a fantastic talent evaluator for the job. I don’t see why Towers would set off “oh god he’s terrible” alarm bells for anyone but people who are bad at running an organization are often very good at specific things.
Easily the most exciting and important news of the day, although the TSJC piece on heyman was easily the most fun to read.
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