33ft/iStockBy JEANETTE TORRES-PEREZ, ABC News
(SEATTLE) — Kevin Mather, the president and CEO of the Seattle Mariners, stepped down Monday following comments he made earlier this month that were released online this past weekend.
In a statement Monday, Mariners chairman and managing partner John Stanton said Mather “has resigned his position effective immediately.”
Over the weekend, Mather’s comments to a local rotary club surfaced on YouTube. In the clip, which has since been taken down, Mather makes remarks about the team’s international players and discusses sensitive topics about the organization.
The MLB released a statement condemning Mather’s “offensive and disrespectful comments about several
