The search is over for the San Diego Padres: Jed Hoyer, currently the Boston Red Sox's senior vice president and assistant GM, is expected to be named their new general manager early next week:
Jed Hoyer To Succeed Kevin Towers As New Padres General Manager
Hoyer was hired by the Red Sox in 2003, when he was just 28, and has since become one of Epstein’s most trusted assistants. A native of Plymouth, N.H., and a 1996 graduate of Wesleyan University, Hoyer has aided Epstein in all aspects of Boston’s baseball operations department including player acquisitions and evaluations and contract negotiations.
Hoyer also is a student of blending scouting and quantitative analysis, which is part of what Moorad clearly meant when, in dismissing Towers after 14 seasons with the organization, he said he wanted a GM with more of a “strategic approach.” At the time, he referred to Towers as a “gunslinger.”
The Red Sox are noted for blending sabermatrics -- statistical analysis -- and scouting as well as any franchise in the game.
When Sox GM Theo Epstein went on what was essentially a hiatus in 2005 (44 days, to be exact), Hoyer was the co-GM for the Red Sox with Ben Cherington.
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