Former Guardian, Rangers, DBack and Angels outfielder Kole Calhoun spoke up about Alex Pretti’s killing, ICE deployment in Minnesota, treatment of immigrants and the political division in the country over multiple Instagram stories. Very eloquently spoke. Worth a read.

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  2. Baseball players have been shying away from political statements lately. Nice to see Calhoun call out something that shouldn’t be a political opinion.

  8. he wrote a lot in the stories that followed but here’s an excerpt:

    >The United States we live in now could not be more divided, but this is a turning point. The images and videos from Minnesota are alarming, on all fronts, to what this country was built on and our core values as a society are under attack. There is right way to do things and a wrong way and the tactics on display for the world to see, the ones designed to create fear and intimidate by recruits of this administration, are the wrong way.

    >What this administration is doing when it comes to immigration is blatantly racist, targeting people based on the color of their skin or the sound of their last name. There is a much more civilized way to do this that involves working together with state officials as opposed to inserting the administrations will on a state whose citizens have stood up for their neighbors and said this is not right!

    >l’ve been silent because that is easy. But silence is a privilege and silence is complicit. Standing up and speaking for what you believe in takes courage. I don’t care about what side you’re on or who you voted for, this is wrong. This is wrong and is imposing on the basic freedoms we have in the country. Wake up! Speak out!

  13. Of all the people I thought I would see make a post, “Kole Calhoun” was not on that list

    Big respect

  15. Kole is absolutely right, and it’s refreshing to see *some* baseball players speaking out about this, especially knowing they are in the minority amongst a largely-conservative player base

  20. I’ll be honest, I thought Calhoun always had a reputation for being a shit head. Glad to see he has a spine.

  21. Glad to see that we’re not falling for the bullshit around this story.

    Alex was **murdered** by those agents, nothing else to it.

  22. It’s good to see a baseball player actually grow a pair and take a stand (on the right side of history) for once

  23. Good on em.

    Still, absolutely fkn wild that saying “random public executions by the state are bad” is noteworthy in 2026.

  24. Kole Calhoun, Spencer Strider, and Bailey Ober. I know that Calhoun is retired but I’ll be rooting for all three of these guys.

  25. Well, I need to be less judgmental, because he is the **last** person I expected to see this from. It is very heartening to see players speaking out.

  27. Posting before this gets locked. I agree. There is no excuse that I have read that can legitimately justify the execution. Nothing he did was deserving of death.

    Same with Renee Good who was found to have been killed by a shot from the side as found by an autopsy.

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