Bud Norris is keen for a fresh start in Toronto and to continue putting a controversial incident from 2015 behind him. And yes, the right-handed reliever regrets comments that were critical of players of different ethnic backgrounds playing in Major League Baseball. “I didn’t use my words very carefully that day,” Norris said on Thursday in his first public comments as a Blue Jay. Norris’s 2015 comments were in response to a USA Today report that claimed the majority of bench-clearing brawls in MLB included players of different ethnic backgrounds. “I think it’s a culture shock,” Norris said told USA Today.

Source: National Post March 07, 2019 15:34 UTC