{"id":553192,"date":"2026-03-22T12:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T12:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/553192\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T12:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T12:20:08","slug":"randy-arozarena-says-he-apologized-to-cal-raleigh-over-wbc-spat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/553192\/","title":{"rendered":"Randy Arozarena says he apologized to Cal Raleigh over WBC spat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mar 22, 2026, 08:07 AM ET<\/p>\n<p><a data-player-guid=\"ff4e0d11-a441-34db-29d8-8567b71547b7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/36488\/randy-arozarena\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Randy Arozarena<\/a> says he has apologized to <a data-player-guid=\"6c27dcb5-a741-d526-b5ac-f3988e288a70\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/41292\/cal-raleigh\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cal Raleigh<\/a> for the expletive-laced comments directed at his <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"56d60582-088f-6848-5180-1fb04440cf87\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/sea\/seattle-mariners\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Mariners<\/a> teammate earlier this month at the World Baseball Classic.<\/p>\n<p>Arozarena released a statement Saturday through the Mariners, saying that he and Raleigh are &#8220;brothers and teammates.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I understand that with Opening Day a few days away, I don&#8217;t want it to be a distraction,&#8221; Arozarena said. &#8220;Cal and I have talked and I apologized for what I said after the game. Nothing in the WBC takes away from the fact that we are brothers and teammates.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Arozarena made headlines nearly two weeks ago at the WBC for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/48163301\/randy-arozarena-rants-cal-raleigh-handshake-snub-wbc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">his reaction to a perceived snub from Raleigh<\/a>. The Mariners teammates were on opposite sides in a March 9 game when Arozarena and Team Mexico faced Raleigh and Team USA.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<p>After Raleigh declined to shake his hand before an at-bat, Arozarena lashed out in a profane rant to Mexican journalist Luis Gilbert.<\/p>\n<p>Raleigh attempted to downplay the situation the following day, saying that he had spoken with Arozarena and that there was &#8220;no beef&#8221; between the teammates. The All-Star catcher reiterated his stance Saturday, telling reporters that everything that happened at the WBC is &#8220;in the past.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We talked it out, and everything went great,&#8221; Raleigh said, according to MLB.com. &#8220;Randy knows that I love him, and he&#8217;s a brother, and it&#8217;s in the past and none of us are carrying this forward. We&#8217;re in a good spot. We talked it out. We were both sorry, and we both got in a good place and we&#8217;re both happy to be here, too.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was really good walking in the door and seeing everybody. As fun as [the WBC] was, it was nice to feel back here. It feels like the family&#8217;s all back together in a way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mariners manager Dan Wilson cited the &#8220;special group&#8221; of players in the Seattle clubhouse, saying he wasn&#8217;t surprised that Arozarena ultimately apologized. The pair have been teammates since Arozarena was traded from Tampa Bay to Seattle during the 2024 season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t surprise me,&#8221; Wilson said, according to MLB.com. &#8220;That&#8217;s what we&#8217;ve talked about in that clubhouse. It&#8217;s just a special group. They love each other, and yeah, it&#8217;s time. I think we&#8217;re all ready to get back to Seattle and get this thing started.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The defending American League West champion Mariners open their season Thursday at home against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"6ad8fa03-36bc-baab-c76a-345b6544424d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/cle\/cleveland-guardians\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland Guardians<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mar 22, 2026, 08:07 AM ET Randy Arozarena says he has apologized to Cal Raleigh for the expletive-laced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-553192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}