With just a weekend left in the regular season, the teams out of the running have started their planning for next season. Earlier in the week, the Cleveland Indians let manager Eric Wedge know his services would not be needed next season. The Indians had high expectations going into the season, but they turned into sellers trading away high profile players Mark DeRosa, Cliff Lee, and Victor Martinez for younger players.
Now, word out of San Diego is that the new ownership team is going in another direction and letting long time GM Kevin Towers go. The biggest impact Towers has had on the team throughout the season was convincing Jake Peavy to be more open minded to a trade. At the end of the day, the Padres are doing Towers a favor because its will be hard to be excited about going to the office when the team is building to compete three years from now.
