Former San Diego Padres and Arizona Diamondbacks general manager Kevin Towers died Tuesday at the age of 56.
According to MLB.com's Oliver Macklin, Towers had cancer.
Towers served as the Padres GM from 1995 through 2009 and was the Diamondbacks' general manager from 2010 until 2014.
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