NY Times · May 29, 2022
To Change Baseball, an Ace Needs a New Title
In his role with Music City Baseball, Dave Stewart is trying to bring a Major League Baseball team to Nashville.Credit...Deanne Fitzmaurice for The New York TimesIn 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.