Seattle Mariners team president and CEO Kevin Mather is being criticized for comments he made during a Zoom call with a rotating group on Feb. 5.
The video, which came to light on Sunday, includes comments on the need for a translator of former star launcher Hisashi Iwakuma, the English aptitude of one of the organization’s top prospects and many other things that the baseball operations staff of the team probably wish they didn’t know about now.
The 46-minute video with the Bellevue Breakfast Rotary Club included Mather’s views on the 2020 season, the upcoming 2021 season, and the general state of team rebuilding, followed by a segment of questions and answers.
By mid-Sunday afternoon, the video, which had only been uploaded to YouTube on Friday, had already been removed. The full transcript of Mather’s so-called Zoom can be found here. As of Sunday afternoon, the team had no official comment on …