Ken Rosenthal spills the beans on who the Padres are considering.
According to Fox Sports' Ken Rosenthal, the Padres already have a list of candidates for the open General Manager position that they would like to interview.
Sources: #Padres plan to interview internal candidates Hinch, Minaya for GM job, along with former #Marlins GM Beinfest. Also…
— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) June 24, 2014#Padres have asked permission to interview #Yankees’ Eppler, #RedSox’s Hazen, #Rangers’ Levine, #Cubs’ McLeod, #Athletics’ Forst and . . .
— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) June 24, 2014. . . #STLCards’ Girsch. Other interviews also being requested. Team considers it "longshot" that GM will be in place before July 31.
— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) June 24, 2014Clarification on #Padres. Possible they identify and/or select new GM before 7/31. Longshot that the person will be doing the job by then.
— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) June 24, 2014The internal candidates are uninteresting and hopefully are only a formality. The external candidates are a very interesting list. Only one (Beinfest) is a former GM. The rest are a who's who of rising stars in baseball front offices.