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Brett Netzer has been released from the Red Sox team after he had faced restriction in the 2021 season. Find out all the details on the recent commotion that he has created on Twitter!
Brett Netzer was the second baseman in the Boston Red Sox minor league system.
The team has recently released him after he tweeted a series of racist, anti-transgender, and anti-Semitic tweets.
Netzer’s tweets have caught the attention of the baseball fraternity and have landed him in a tight spot.
Likewise, the netizens and baseball fans are also disappointed at the player for his unremorseful tweets.
Brett Netzer Racist Tweet: Is Brett Netzer Restricted List After Release?
Brett Netzer was restricted in the 2021 season, but he has been officially released from the Red Sox team after his racist tweets found their way on Twitter.
Not only racist, but he also attacked the Red Sox chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom.
Netzer called out Bloom’s Jewish background in two tweets and called him a bad actor.
After Bloom, Netzer shifted his tweets towards the transgender people and wrote, “any person who is secretly transgender, and their partner does not know, and sexual actions have taken place, is a rapist and a sexual molester. may God be the judge.”
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After that, Netzer tweeted that the Black people should return to their roots to re-establish their true black culture.
Though the damage was done, Netzer again returned and accepted his tweets were indeed homophobic and racist but not anti-Semitic.
Was The Sox Player Brett Netzer Arrested?
The former Red Sox player Brett Netzer has not been arrested for his tweets yet.
As his baseball career with the Red Sox has finally ended, any legal actions against him are yet to be reported.
His tweets have made him a hateful personality, and it seems not many people are affected by his absence from the MILB grounds.
Brett Netzer Wikipedia: His Age and Height Explored
Brett Netzer’s current age is 25 years old as of 2021.
He was born on April 6, 1996, in Tega Cay, SC, per his MILB profile.
Netzer also stands at an amazing height of 6 feet. Now-released Red Sox player was drafted in MILB in 2017 in the third round of UNC Charlotte draft out.
As the team’s third baseman, Netzer last played in 2019 and could not attend games in 2020 due to Covid-19.
Meanwhile, he was already on the restriction list in the 2021 season for unknown reasons before being released as of 2022.
