Seattle Mariners team president and chief executive officer Kevin Mather is under criticism for comments he made during a Zoom call with a rotary group on Feb. 5.
The video — which came to light Sunday — includes comments on former All-Star pitcher Hisashi Iwakuma’s need for a translator, the English aptitude of one of the organization’s top prospects and many other things the team’s baseball operations staff probably wishes you didn’t know about now.
The 46-minute video with the Bellevue Breakfast Rotary Club included Mather’s thoughts on the 2020 season, the upcoming 2021 season and the general state of the team’s rebuild, followed by a question-and-answer segment.
By mid-afternoon Sunday, the video — which had been uploaded to YouTube only on Friday — had been removed. The full transcript of Mather’s Zoom call can be found here. As of Sunday afternoon, the team had no official comment on…
