Longtime baseball executive Bob Aylward very badly wanted to help the Seattle Mariners someday raise a World Series banner.
He will have to see it happen as a fan.
After 42 years of working in major league baseball, including the past 20 as the executive vice president of baseball operations with the Mariners, Aylward announced Monday that he was retiring, effective at month’ end.
“I have had a tremendous opportunity to combine a career with a game I love,” Aylward said in a statement released by the team.
Aylward will remain a special consultant to Mariners’ CEO John Stanton and president Kevin Mather through mid-summer of 2018.