Chicago White Sox pitcher Michael Kopech has acknowledged he deleted offensive tweets from his timeline and expressed remorse for his poor judgment.
Twitter user @mylittlefaith captured screenshots of the tweets in questions (warning: contains offensive language):
britney@BoSox_4150 @Petty_OBJ @AgentSheryl @chonixtoplatd here's some of them https://t.co/mhZNGwE6UK
Kopech addressed the social media posts with Madeline Kenney of the Chicago Sun-Times on Thursday:
"Yeah, I had to delete some stuff. Things I said that were immature and inappropriate. I used some poor language in there. Obviously, I'm trying to be looked at as a role model and the last thing I want to do is have some kid look at what I'm saying and take it the wrong way.