CHICAGO _ White Sox rookie pitcher Michael Kopech became the latest major-leaguer to have offensive tweets from his teenage years revealed.
Kopech told the Chicago Sun-Times he was sorry for the tweets, which included offensive terms and descriptions for African-Americans, Mexicans and homosexuals. Kopech had deleted the tweets, but screenshots of them were posted by another Twitter user Thursday.
Sox general manager Rick Hahn told the Chicago Tribune the organization is satisfied Kopech, 22, has taken responsibility for his words from 2013, when he was 17.
"Michael has been very upfront about his tweets from high school several years ago," Hahn said. "He has taken responsibility and apologized for his offensive and inappropriate word choices at the time, but he has stressed that those careless words do not reflect who he is today.
"It is certainly true that they don't reflect the young man we know as a maturing, growing and developing member of our organization."
Kopech, who made his major-league debut Tuesday and is the Sox's top pitching prospect, is the fourth major-leaguer this summer to have offensive tweets from his teenage years revealed, following the Brewers' Josh Hader, the Nationals' Trea Turner and the Braves' Sean Newcomb. All have apologized.
