page_title: Dave Stewart (baseball)
section_title: Texas Rangers
hierarchical_section_title: Dave Stewart (baseball) / Professional career / Texas Rangers
caption_attribution_description: English: Dave Stewart at Texas Rangers/Eckerd Drugs Camera Day at Arlington Stadium, Arlington, Texas Sunday, April 28, 1985.
context_page_description: David Keith Stewart, nicknamed "Smoke", is an American professional baseball executive, pitching coach, sports agent, and retired starting pitcher. The Los Angeles Dodgers' 16th-round selection in the 1975 MLB draft, Stewart's MLB playing career spanned from 1978 through 1995, winning three World Series championships while compiling a career 3.95 earned run average and a 168–129 won–lost record, including winning 20 games in four consecutive seasons. He pitched for the Dodgers, Texas Rangers, Philadelphia Phillies, Oakland Athletics, and Toronto Blue Jays.
  Stewart was an MLB All-Star and was known for his postseason performance – winning one World Series Most Valuable Player Award and two League Championship Series Most Valuable Player Awards – and for staring down batters when pitching to them. After his playing career, he served as a pitching coach for the San Diego Padres, Milwaukee Brewers, and Blue Jays and as an assistant GM. General managers he has worked under include: Sandy Alderson, Kevin Towers, Gord Ash, and Dean Taylor. He later became a sports agent based in San Diego until the Arizona Diamondbacks hired him as general manager at the end of the 2014 season.
context_section_description: On August 19, 1983, the Dodgers traded Stewart with a player to be named later (Ricky Wright) to the Rangers for Rick Honeycutt. The trade was controversial at the time, in that many felt that Rangers GM Joe Klein had gotten too little for the teams best pitcher at the time. The Rangers placed him in the starting rotation and he made eight starts down the stretch for them. He was 5–2 with a 2.14 ERA. In 1984, however, he struggled. He produced a 7–14 record and a 4.73 ERA in 27 starts before losing his rotation spot.  Tom House joined the organization in January 1985 as the team's new pitching coach. He decided that Stewart needed a new pitch and started teaching him a split-fingered fastball. He became a relief pitcher for the Rangers in 1985, but the results were not good. On May 22 he gave up a three-run homer to Jorge Orta of the Kansas City Royals, giving up the lead. The home fans booed him off the field and after the game he called the fans "idiots" and challenged them to come on to the field and do his job for him.
  The team's new General Manager, Tom Grieve, fined Stewart $500 for his remarks, but that wasn't enough for the Rangers owner Eddie Chiles, who demanded that Grieve trade him. After finding a weak market for him, the Rangers finally managed to trade Stewart to the Philadelphia Phillies on September 13, 1985, for pitcher Rick Surhoff. In 42 games for the Rangers in 1985, he was 0–6 with a 5.42 ERA.
caption: Dave Stewart signing autographs at Texas Rangers/Eckerd Drug Camera Day at Arlington Stadium on Sunday, April 28, 1985.
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