{"id":35855,"date":"2022-06-04T01:25:37","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T01:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/new-york-yankees-nestor-cortes-says-jim-kaat-apologized-for-remark-feels-no-malice-intended-at-all\/"},"modified":"2022-06-04T01:25:37","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T01:25:37","slug":"new-york-yankees-nestor-cortes-says-jim-kaat-apologized-for-remark-feels-no-malice-intended-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/new-york-yankees-nestor-cortes-says-jim-kaat-apologized-for-remark-feels-no-malice-intended-at-all\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Yankees&#8217; Nestor Cortes says Jim Kaat apologized for remark, feels&#8217; no malice intended &#8216;at all"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Jim Kaat has apologized to Nestor Cortes, with the New York Yankees left-hander tweeting Friday that he doesn&#8217;t believe the comment made a day earlier by the longtime Minnesota Twins announcer was done with ill intentions.<\/p>\n<p>Kaat had referred to Cortes as &#8220;Nestor the Molestor&#8221; during a broadcast of the Twins-Detroit Tigers game.  He began to explain that Cortes had become one of his favorite pitchers during a breakout season with New York.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;Nestor the Molestor,&#8217; Nestor Cortes,&#8221; Kaat said.  &#8220;Angles and different speeds. He&#8217;s a pitcher.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=\/photo\/2022\/0526\/r1017654_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&amp;w=130&amp;h=130&amp;scale=crop&amp;location=center\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Cortes said after the Yankees played Thursday night that he wasn&#8217;t offended by what Kaat said, and he reiterated that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cortes_1210\/status\/1532849145383378947\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in the social media post Friday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jim Kaat has spent an entire lifetime in this game we love,&#8221; he wrote.  &#8220;He reached out to me and apologized for his remark last night, but he didn&#8217;t need to. We all make mistakes and feel 100% there was no malice intended. I plan on lifting him up with this tweet and I hope others do too. No sweat here Jim! &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>The Twins said Thursday that they would handle what happened &#8220;internally and privately.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kaat, a longtime commentator who has also worked for the Yankees and MLB Network, apologized in October after saying teams should try to &#8220;get a 40-acre field full of&#8221; players who look like Chicago White Sox infielder Yoan Moncada.<\/p>\n<p>His comment about Moncada reminded some viewers of the unfilled promise by the US government that freed slaves would receive 40 acres and a mule following the Civil War.  He apologized later in that game between the Houston Astros and White Sox.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Kaat has apologized to Nestor Cortes, with the New York Yankees left-hander tweeting Friday that he doesn&#8217;t believe the comment made a day earlier by the longtime Minnesota Twins announcer was done with ill intentions. Kaat had referred to Cortes as &#8220;Nestor the Molestor&#8221; during a broadcast of the Twins-Detroit Tigers game. He began &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/new-york-yankees-nestor-cortes-says-jim-kaat-apologized-for-remark-feels-no-malice-intended-at-all\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New York Yankees&#8217; Nestor Cortes says Jim Kaat apologized for remark, feels&#8217; no malice intended &#8216;at all<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11],"tags":[237,236,16576,614,146],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=\/photo\/2022\/0417\/r1001085_1296x729_16-9.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}