Red Sox release minor-leaguer following racist, homophobic social media posts: 'I am a racist'

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The Boston Red Sox released minor league player Brett Netzer after the 2017 third-round pick sent out a series of racist, homophobic and antisemitic tweets, according to The Athletic.

On Friday night, Netzer took shots at transgender people and Black Americans, and said Red Sox executive Chaim Bloom is a "hypocrite and an embarrassment to any torah-following Jew."

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Brett Netzer of the Portland Sea Dogs returns to the dugout against the Reading Fightin Phils at Hadlock Field on April 7, 2019, in Portland, Maine. (Zachary Roy/Getty Images)

"i am a racist. i do sometimes make assumptions based on a persons race/ethnicity/culture. glad that is out of the way," Netzer wrote in one tweet.

After The Athletic reported that Netzer was being released, he quote-tweeted the report saying, "ill go along with racist and homophobic, but anti-semitic? thats too far. bloom is a hypocrite and an embarrassment to any torah-following jew."

Brett Netzer of the Boston Red Sox takes a lead off first base against the Tampa Bay Rays on Feb 22, 2020, at JetBlue Park in Fort Myers, Florida. (Joel Auerbach/Getty Images)

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Netzer, who played 302 games in the minors from 2017-2019, also attacked the Red Sox executive for supporting Black Lives Matter and the LGBTQ community in another tweet. Netzer wrote that Black people should "go back to their roots and start to re-establish their true black culture." In another tweet, he called closeted transgender people rapists.

Brett Netzer of the Boston Red Sox runs from first base to third against the Tampa Bay Rays on Feb. 22, 2020, in Fort Myers, Florida. (Joel Auerbach/Getty Images)

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Netzer hasn’t played in a game since the COVID-19 pandemic. He had a .263/.327/.355 slash line in the minor leagues. He was on the restricted list in 2021, and now there’s a really good chance he may never step on a baseball field ever again.