Thanks to Kevin Acee’s recent column in the San Diego Union Tribune, we now know why the San Diego Padres’ front office has been mute in recent weeks. Obviously, Mike Dee no longer speaks for the team, and Ron Fowler, the executive chairman, has been busy with baseball matters only tangentially affecting the local team.
Since 2015 Fowler has immersed himself in his work as chairman of MLB’s labor committee. As such, he visited 29 of 30 clubs and attended almost all of the meetings, most of which were in New York, leading up to the new collective bargaining agreement.