The Toronto Blue Jays can't employ Anthony Bass, the middle reliever, and avoid reckoning with Anthony Bass, the man.
When Bass shared a video to his Instagram story that strongly endorsed boycotting Target due to the company's pro-LGBTQ2S+ initiatives, he took the step from controversy into bigotry. As long as he's wearing a Blue Jays uniform, that's a stain the club can't scrub out.
In the Blue Jays' initial statement about the situation, the team said, "Individual player sentiments are not representative of the club's beliefs." To some degree, that's understandable. You can't expect an organization with hundreds of employees to share one value system or political ideology.