The New York Yankees announced today that Kevin Towers has joined the organization as a Special Assignment Scout. Based in San Diego, he will work directly with General Manager Brian Cashman, Vice President of Amateur Scouting Damon Oppenheimer and Senior Director of Pro Personnel Billy Eppler.If you'd like to read the rest, head over to Yankees.com.
He begins his 29th season in professional baseball in 2010, including 26 seasons in the San Diego Padres organization and two with the Pittsburgh Pirates....
And here's an interesting bit of info from SteveB over at Pride of the Yankees:
This news is also something that will be avoided like the plague in Boston. You see, Kevin Towers is also close friends with the current Red Sox' GM, Theo Epstein, who worked directly under Towers for about six years before getting the Red Sox job. In fact, Epstein wanted to hire Towers to do the same kind of job he has with the Yankees, but Towers is reportedly turned off by Red Sox President Larry Lucchino, who was also the Padres' President during 1995-2001, and was therefore once Towers' boss. What goes around comes around, as they say.
