{"id":11215,"date":"2018-07-18T15:49:01","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T19:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=11215"},"modified":"2018-07-18T15:49:01","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T19:49:01","slug":"brewers-jesus-aguilar-shows-support-for-teammate-josh-hader-after-tweets-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2018\/07\/18\/brewers-jesus-aguilar-shows-support-for-teammate-josh-hader-after-tweets-surface\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewers: Jesus Aguilar shows support for teammate Josh Hader after tweets surface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2018\/07\/joshhader.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11216\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2018\/07\/joshhader.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2018\/07\/joshhader-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nWhile Josh Hader was struggling on the mound during Monday&#8217;s MLB All-Star game, some past tweets he would probably have preferred to have deleted began to surface.<\/p>\n<p>In an age of social media, it&#8217;s almost amazing that it took until the All-Star game for Hader&#8217;s insensitive tweets to surface.<\/p>\n<p>MLB has opted not suspend Hader for comments which were made seven years ago and instead will have him complete sensitivity training.<\/p>\n<p>Brewers teammate Jesus Aguilar sent out tweets in support of Hader, deeming the pitcher to not be racist.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">First of all I want to show my support to my friend and teammate, Josh Hader. <\/p>\n<p>He made a mistake 7 years ago. He admitted, he apologized and most important: He learned from it.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jesus Aguilar (@JAguilarMKE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JAguilarMKE\/status\/1019639195478962176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 18, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Regarding accusations of racism: I\u2019m Venezuelan and with the skin color that I have, can tell you that it is a lie. Obviously he\u2019s not racist.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s a great player and a better person. Great teammate.<br \/>And you know it<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jesus Aguilar (@JAguilarMKE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JAguilarMKE\/status\/1019639437800730625?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 18, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters after the All-Star game, Hader admitted mistakes in making the posts when he was 17.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just something that happened,\u201d Hader said. \u201cI was 17 years old. As a child, I was immature. I obviously said some things that were inexcusable. That doesn\u2019t reflect on who I am as a person today. That\u2019s just what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Josh Hader was struggling on the mound during Monday&#8217;s MLB All-Star game, some past tweets he would probably have preferred to have deleted began to surface. In an age of social media, it&#8217;s almost amazing that it took until the All-Star game for Hader&#8217;s insensitive tweets to surface. MLB has opted not suspend Hader [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,1061,224,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-11215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-josh-hader","10":"tag-milwaukee-brewers","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11217,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11215\/revisions\/11217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11215"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}