Arozarena Sorry After Expletive-laced Comments About Mariners Teammate Raleigh At Wbc

Randy Arozarena says he has apologized to his Seattle Mariners teammate Cal Raleigh aft an incident astatine this month’s World Baseball Classic.

Arozarena was representing Mexico against Raleigh’s USA erstwhile nan teams met astatine nan WBC connected 9 March. Raleigh ignored Arozarena’s connection of a handshake during an at-bat, a move that angered nan outfielder. In a later interview, Arozarena said Raleigh could “fuck off” and “go to hell.” Raleigh downplayed nan incident, saying “we’re bully friends and we’ll proceed to beryllium bully friends”.

On Saturday, Arozarena issued a connection done nan Mariners saying he had made amends pinch Raleigh.

“I understand that pinch Opening Day a fewer days away, I don’t want it to beryllium a distraction,” Arozarena said. “Cal and I person talked and I apologized for what I said aft nan game. Nothing successful nan WBC takes distant from nan truth that we are brothers and teammates.”

Raleigh deed 60 location runs past season, a grounds for a catcher, arsenic nan Mariners won nan AL West and fell conscionable short of a World Series appearance. Mariners head Joe Wilson said he wasn’t amazed astatine Arozarena’s apology.

“It’s conscionable a typical group,” Wilson told MLB.com. “They emotion each other, and yeah, it’s time. I deliberation we’re each fresh to get backmost to Seattle and get this point started.”

The Mariners play their first crippled of nan play connected Thursday, against nan Cleveland Guardians.