Nationals shortstop Trea Turner became the latest MLB player embroiled in a social-media controversy on Sunday when offensive tweets from 2011 were revealed to the public.
Turner's tweets featured racist and homophobic content. The young shortstop issued an apology through the team hours after the revelation.
Turner extended his apologies past the original statement on Tuesday afternoon by meeting with the media in Washington.
"I want to apologize to everybody who was affected to the things I said, the African-American community, LGBT community, special needs community," Turner said. "It's not when I said the things I said, it's that I said them at all.