Kevin Towers, the longtime San Diego Padres general manager, was posthumously inducted into the Padres Hall of Fame today, with the formal ceremony scheduled to take place on Saturday, May 12, before the Friars play the St. Louis Cardinals.
Towers grew up in Medford, Oregon and attended Brigham Young University in Provo, UT. After being selected by the Padres in the 1982 MLB Draft, he stayed in the Friars’ system for seven seasons before becoming a coach and then a scout.
After serving as a scout for the team, then for the Pittsburgh Pirates, he became the Padres’ scouting director in 1993.