Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
April 19, 2005
Padres New Pope

Sandy Alderson is moving from the MLB front office to the San Diego Padres front office:

Sandy Alderson, one of Major League Baseball's top executives, has been hired as CEO of the San Diego Padres.

The hiring will be announced Tuesday, a Padres official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told The Associated Press on Monday night.

Alderson, who signed a five-year contract with the Padres, immediately will leave his post as executive vice president for baseball operations in the commissioner's office, a post he's held since September 1998, MLB.com reported.

Alderson is expected to be in charge of baseball operations with the Padres, who haven't been to the playoffs since 1998, when they were swept by the New York Yankees in the World Series. Dick Freeman, currently the president and CEO, will remain as president.

There's no mention of Towers in the article, so I assume he's staying on as GM. Alderson and Towers should make a very potent front office duo.

I'm wondering if someone will bring up the steroid issue at the press conference. Alderson was in charge of security for MLB, yet he had players using steroids under his nose while GM for the Athletics. I wonder if that's part of the reason he's leaving MLB.

Update: There also is a new Pope for real. Now the Cardinals can go back to concentrating on baseball. :-)


Posted by David Pinto at 12:25 PM | Management | TrackBack (0)
Comments

I think you have it backwards. After Yadier Molina had more hits than Mark Mulder gave up last night, the Cardinals could worry about little things like a new pope.

Alderson belongs in a major league front office.

Posted by: Rob at April 19, 2005 01:32 PM

Now maybe Boche will be on his way out and the Pads can start winning some games!

Posted by: tazman at April 19, 2005 02:23 PM
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