The Arizona Diamondbacks, who fired Kevin Towers on Friday, have begun searching for a new general manager.

Towers was offered a position in Arizona's front office, but won't be the GM anymore.

Tony La Russa, the club's chief baseball officer, "has compiled an initial list of candidates, all of whom he will talk to, and when he has narrowed that down to two or three people, he will have team president and CEO Derrick Hall and possibly others in the club's hierarchy sit down with that group for a second round of interviews," writes Steve Gilbert.