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J.D. Martinez Defends 2013 Instagram Post Featuring Adolf Hitler

Another Major League Baseball player found himself in hot water having to explain a controversial social media post.

Boston Red Sox slugger J.D. Martinez says he stands by a Instagram post from 2013 which featured German dictator Adolf Hitler.

“I posted it,” Martinez said. “I love my country. I love this country. I stand by the Constitution and I stand by the Second Amendment and it’s something that I take pride in. It’s something that I’ll back up.”

Martinez says he didn't mean to offend anyone with the post.

“As most of you guys know I’m Cuban-American, and most of my family was run out of Cuba because of a brutal dictator,” he said.