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Padres want 'strategic' work from Hoyer

Associated Press

Monday, October 26, 2009

SAN DIEGO -- Jeff Moorad is so enamored with the way the Boston Red Sox do business that he hired another one of Theo Epstein's assistants, this time to run the San Diego Padres. Jed Hoyer was formally introduced as the Padres' general manager on Monday. He was hired during the weekend after spending eight seasons with the Red Sox. He'd been an assistant to Epstein since the end of the 2003 season. The 35-year-old Hoyer replaces Kevin Towers, who was fired during the final weekend of the seaso ...

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