Evan Drellich from The Athletic has issued a public apology over a reporting mistake earlier this week involving Los Angeles Dodgers infielder Miguel Rojas.<\/p>\n
The incident occurred on Monday when Drellich tweeted news of an 80-game suspension for performance enhancing drugs. In the initial post on X, Drellich named Miguel Rojas, the veteran Dodgers utilityman<\/a>.<\/p>\n In actuality, the player who was suspended was young Phillies outfielder Johan Rojas. Drellich deleted the original tweet and re-posted one with the correct name within minutes. But the mistake was particularly egregious, because as other MLB reporters noted, the baseball world already knew that Johan Rojas had failed a drug test. The update this week simply cemented his fate after a failed appeal.<\/p>\n The mistake also bothered Miguel Rojas and the Dodgers far more than was previously known. In an appearance on the\u00a0Baseball Today podcast with Chris Rose<\/a> following Rojas\u2019 World Baseball Classic win with Venezuela, the veteran revealed the toll that Drellich\u2019s mistake took on him, and his frustration that the reporter had not spoken with him directly to apologize.<\/p>\n The comments ultimately led Drellich to apologize on X on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n \u201cHe didn\u2019t mistype my name. He did it with all the intention to put my name and the organization\u2019s name on that tweet,\u201d Rojas said. \u201cOne thing is to mistype my name and say, \u2018Miguel Rojas got suspended.\u2019 That\u2019s a fair kind of mistake that you can make. But when you say, \u2018Miguel Rojas from the Los Angeles Dodgers got suspended 80 games for PEDs,\u2019 that\u2019s what I\u2019m not good with.\u201d<\/p>\n While Rojas said he did not want to create more attention around the incident, he said he was upset by how much the incident impacted others in the Dodgers organization, namely lead executive Andrew Friedman.<\/p>\n Rojas felt that Drellich owed him and the team an apology, but revealed that he had not gotten one.<\/p>\n \u201cI feel like as a reporter, you have to have some ability to be a professional as well, and apologize not just to me, but to the organization,\u201d Rojas said.<\/p>\n \u201cBecause you don\u2019t even know how (general manager) Andrew Friedman felt after these accusations, that for six minutes, kind of rumbled my whole world and got so many people around me, and around us, the team, the Los Angeles Dodgers, worried because one guy made a mistake.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m totally OK with making a mistake, but at the end of the day, I was expecting an apology.\u201d<\/p>\n Miguel Rojas talks about the impact of the incorrect tweet that accused him of being suspended for PEDs this week<\/p>\n Presented by @SoFi<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/XIvjilND8E<\/a><\/p>\n