Hot links for Tuesday, Oct. 27

Padres general manager Jed Hoyer is known to burn the midnight oil. ...

Coverage of Hoyer's hiring from Monday's press conference comes from padres.com, the San Diego Union-Tribune, the North County Times, the Associated Press and the Boston Globe, ...

Hoyer is detail-oriented. ... And he is young. Well, if you consider 35 unusually young. They say babies born in the U.S. today will have a life expectancy of 100. In that sense, yeah, he's young. ...

Former Padres president Larry Lucchino vouches for Hoyer. ...

Seems Hoyer is irreplaceable in Boston: His duties will be spread out among the Red Sox staff.

Grady Fuson was jettisoned as part of the change in baseball operations. He oversaw Padres scouting and player development. ... Scouting director Bill "Chief" Gayton reportedly has been reassigned. ...

2B Lance Zawadzki reached base three times as the Peoria Saguaros rolled to a 10-2 victory Tuesday against Scottsdale in the Arizona Fall League. ..

The Padres participated in the last World Series game played during the day and outdoors, Game 5 of the 1984 World Series against Detroit. (Hat tip to the folks at Gaslamp Ball for this one.) ...

Padres broadcaster Jerry Coleman has insight about the last time the Phillies and Yankees met in the World Series: He was the Yankees second baseman in the 1950 Fall Classic. ...

Padres LHP Clayton Richard has something to say about Phillies utilityman Eric Bruntlett. (They're from the same area in Indiana.) ...

Former Padres RHP Chad Gaudin could get a World Series start even though he hasn't started in the first two rounds of the postseason. ...

Former Padres RHP Chad Reineke -- FJ got to cut and paste the first four words of that sentence -- enjoyed his 2009 season, he tells his hometown paper. 

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