Kevin Towers succumbed to thyroid cancer:
Former San Diego Padres and Arizona Diamondbacks general manager Kevin Towers has died after a battle with thyroid cancer. He was 56.
Barry Axelrod, Towers’ friend and former agent, told The Associated Press that Towers died Tuesday at a hospital. Towers’ wife, Kelley, was at his side.
Axelrod said Towers was admitted to a hospital with fluid on his lungs a few days ago, and friends and family members thought he would be able to go home Tuesday.
Towers was diagnosed with anaplastic thyroid cancer in 2016.
My thoughts go out to his family and friends.
Towers became the Padres GM in 1995, and I remember him being rather sabermetrically inclined. Theo Epstein got his start under Towers, so he will have a long lineage of that type of GM.
from baseballmusings.com http://ift.tt/2nss6pw
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