Posted September 22, 201014 yr http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20100922&content_id=14951620&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb Good hire by Arizona. Towers has been in the business for a long time and knows what he's doing.
September 23, 201014 yr Author The Pads will rue the day they fired him. they're doing alright without him Who do you think assembled majority of the current team?
September 23, 201014 yr The Pads will rue the day they fired him. they're doing alright without him And it's because of him. He acquired 6 of their 8 starting position players, 4 of their 5 starters, and every single one of their relievers. Firing him was one of the dumbest things a team has done in a long time.
September 23, 201014 yr Great hire by AZ. It will be no time until the D'Backs are back to contending. I wish our GM/Baseball Operations Director had this intuition when it comes to pitchers. That is seemingly a weakness with Hill and Beinfest.
September 24, 201014 yr depends how much they want to pay him ...... they picked up a pretty big option this year to have him not play ..... unless there is little interest or tremendous loyalty I think webb is in a different jersey next year now if he's throwing in that jersey, it's yet to be seen he's had a couple decent bullpen sessions (which is pretty common over the past 18 months - they are usually followed by a setback.......) and they say he will get another this weekend if that goes well he may be activated and throw out of the bullpen over the last couple of series
September 24, 201014 yr Great hire by AZ. It will be no time until the D'Backs are back to contending. I wish our GM/Baseball Operations Director had this intuition when it comes to pitchers. That is seemingly a weakness with Hill and Beinfest. I wouldn't say it's a "weakness." Just a case of noticing all the bad moves, without realizing the amount of good moves they've made.
September 24, 201014 yr Great hire by AZ. It will be no time until the D'Backs are back to contending. I wish our GM/Baseball Operations Director had this intuition when it comes to pitchers. That is seemingly a weakness with Hill and Beinfest. I wouldn't say it's a "weakness." Just a case of noticing all the bad moves, without realizing the amount of good moves they've made. There's also a lot of variance. I'm not saying the Padres don't have good scouting, but there is a ton of variance with RP arms. And Tim Stauffer was the 4th overall pick in the draft in 2003. He's finally having his 1st decent season as a 28-year-old (1.4+ WHIP last year). So it's not like they hit every time.
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