Kevin Towers

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Kevin Towers is the Major League Baseball San Diego Padres General Manager. Prior to that, he was the Padres scouting director (1993-1995). Towers was also a Pittsburgh Pirates scout between 1991 and 1993 and a Padres scout from 1989 to 1991). He was a pitching coach, for minor league Single-A Spokane Indians in 1989 and 1990.

Towers was an All-WAC pitcher at BYU and the Padres first round draft choice in 1982. He pitched seven seasons in San Diego’s farm system before a series of arm operations ended his career in Triple A. He has led the team to four division championships and a World Series appearance in 1998.