Firing
With the Diamondbacks in last place, 12.5 games of first-place San Diego, and citing a need for accountability and overall change, owner Ken Kendrick and team President Derrick Hall announced on July 2, 2010 that both Josh Byrnes and team manager A.J. Hinch had been relieved of their duties. Josh Byrnes was replaced on an interim basis by Jerry DiPoto and Hinch was replaced also on an interim basis by the promotion of bench coach Kirk Gibson.
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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