John Stanton, who officially took on the role of Mariners chairman and CEO in August, recently spoke at length about the organization and a little about himself and how he got here. Why get involved in baseball? “Because I love it,” Stanton said. “I loved it growing up.”
His reluctance wasn’t a desire to remain out of the spotlight or fear of being brought into it. It was more of a logical unwillingness to take any attention away from the organization or the people representing it on the field in the last month of the season.
To John Stanton, he wasn’t a story to be told in the final month of the baseball season.