In the fall of 2016, when Dave Stewart was fired by the Arizona Diamondbacks after serving as the team’s general manager for two seasons, he was uncharacteristically short of words.
“To be honest with you, I’m kind of relieved,” he said at the time. “Quite frankly, I’ve got better things to do.”
Fifteen years before, when the Toronto Blue Jays hired J.P. Ricciardi as their general manager, passing over Stewart who had been the team’s assistant general manager for three seasons, Stewart had been far more outspoken.
“They think the only people capable of doing these jobs are white people, not minorities,” he said.