Hoyer "Closer" To Becoming Padres GM

This should relieve the Dodgers' Kimg Ng fans.

If they do go ahead and name Hoyer the GM, then I will definitely be following them next year. This would be a great hire for the Padres, and he has learned under one of the best GM in baseball with a great list of developed stars. Very young too which will appeal to the younger players.

Oh god, here we go with the discrimination BS

Go ahead and hire NG, just leave the Boston FO and the super team of assistants that Epstein has hired alone. Hoyer is just one, AZ grabbed one a few years ago and it's hard to replace the new/young generation of future GM's.

"Go ahead and hire NG, just leave the Boston FO and the super team of assistants that Epstein has hired alone. Hoyer is just one, AZ grabbed one a few years ago and it's hard to replace the new/young generation of future GM's."

Arizona managed to snatch Josh Byrnes and Jerry DiPoto from Boston by offering them autonomy within the front office, certainly a solid move for them looking back.

You haven't even mentioned the word that Kevin Towers was offered a position with Boston as well, which would add another brilliant baseball mind to their collection.

That's definitely one of the things that Epstein probably doesn't get enough credit for: hiring an absolutely fantastic group of executives and scouts to surround him.

"Adrian Gonzalez, here we come."

Just because Epstein would be negotiating with Hoyer instead of Towers doesn't mean that he'll just go out and offer Buchholz/Kelly/Westmoreland/Reddick for him..

"Hopefully for the Padres, Hoyer will follow in Epstein's footsteps: Hire a team of scouts and executives, both of the saber-friendly and the old-school variety, to help him run the team. Conflicting opinions will help breed new thoughts and make the final decisions more thought out and analyzed."

And yet, people continue to insist that it's a battle for our minds and souls in the front office: sabermetrics versus scouting.

These people work together, and only through utilizing both of those ways of looking at the game can one most accurately evaluate a player's predictive long-term value.

"The Padres need to get a scouting executive to find real talent I hope Hoyer has a person in mind.:

Remember this also.. Hoyer was one of those in charge when Boston pulled the trigger during Epstein's 1 month "vacation" during the contract squabble after the 2005 season when Hanley Ramirez and Anibel Sanchez was sent to the Fish for Beckett and Lowell, so he will make the trades not popular sometimes down the road.

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Hoyer for Towers is not a good trade to me, would rather have Jed Hoyer who is probably right behind Epstein in case Theo ever left the organization.

"Hoyer to the Padres would make for a nice pipeline of talent to the Red Sox."

That is crazy talk and anybody that can even think knows it.

Just how has the trading front between Boston and AZ gone since Byrnes went to AZ? Not much activity huh? I can't think of a single move off hand, thought there probably has been at least a minor transaction. The reason? Byrnes is/was familiar with the prospects Boston has and Epstein would be righfully leary of making a move, or at least for 3-4 years after Byrnes moved and the same if Hoyer made the move to anywhere, since he plays a major part with drafting/scouting in the minor league system.

Not saying there is no chance of transactions between Epstein and his former assistants, but odds would be diminished and *IF* Hoyer makes the move, it would probably quash all chances of Gonzalez being moved to Boston and that would make Padres fans happy am pretty sure, since he for sure knows the best people Boston has in the lower levels.

I could see Hoyer as Padres GM working against the Red Sox. Hoyer knows Epstein's negotiating tactics, and as a new GM making his first major trade possibly with Gonzalez he would be looking to make the best deal possible for his new club. Plus he has more insight on the Red Sox prospects than most other GM's do.

I wouldn't go so far as to say there is no way a Gonzalez deal goes down, if there is a deal that works for both sides something will happen. He does obviously have a good working relationship with Theo Epstein. It's just that Hoyer will know which guys are blue-chip players in the Sox system and he will undoubtedly ask for those types of players. And it still goes without saying that Hoyer needs to be realistic with valuation of all the players involved.