MLB Exec Fired After He Claimed To Exclude Christian Player From Team’s Social Media

A Washington Nationals executive was fired this week after he claimed on a hidden-camera video that an outspoken Christian pitcher was excluded from some of the team’s promotional content because of his religious views.

The Nationals fired Sean Hudson, its director of community relations, after undercover journalist James O’Keefe posted a video showing Hudson admit to blacklisting pitcher Trevor Williams from the team’s social media content.

“One of our pitchers, Trevor Williams, he is very Catholic,” Hudson said on the hidden camera video.

The former Nationals executive then provided an example of why he avoided featuring Williams for the team’s promotional content.

“The Dodgers had a group out to the stadium who were drag queens who sometimes dressed up as nuns. He went on social media [and wrote], ‘This is wrong. This is my religion. You all are mocking it.’ Because of that, we don’t use him on social [media],” Hudson said.

The Los Angeles Dodgers were condemned by Christians across the country, including multiple MLB players, for inviting the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a drag queen group that mocks Jesus Christ and Christians, to perform at one of their games in 2023.

After Hudson was canned, Washington Nationals President of Business Operations Jason Sinnarajah went on live TV to apologize to Williams and the team’s Christian fans for Hudson’s remarks. He also said Hudson’s comments were false and “don’t reflect us as an organization, our values, who we are.”

“We took action right away, and [Hudson] is no longer employed by the team,” Sinnarajah added.

“We do not hide players from social media. Even just last week, we featured several players, including Trevor Williams, as part of their visit to the Museum of the Bible,” Sinnarajah said.

In the hidden-camera video, Hudson also talked about his disdain for War Secretary Pete Hegseth and said that he prevented some Nationals players from meeting Hegseth after they expressed interest in talking to the top Trump official when he attended a game.

“We had Pete Hegseth at Space Force Day last year … and a few players texted me and they were like, ‘Is he going to be here after the game? I want to say hi.’ And I’m like, ‘Oh, no he left, he’s gone, sorry.'”

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One of the team’s social media stunts that Hudson claimed specifically excluded Williams was a video of Nationals players being asked whether a hot dog is a sandwich. Williams posted a photo on Instagram on Friday that appeared to reference Hudson’s comment about the hot dog video. The post showed numerous photos, including one that features a hat that reads “Bad Day to Be a Hot Dog.”

In the post, Williams also discussed his reading of 1 Peter chapter four and wrote, “This entire chapter really addresses the social costs of the faith … As my friend Fr. Joshua said ‘Sometimes we lean into it and bravely bear witness to Christ’s truth; sometimes we dodge it and regret it later, feeling we’ve let Jesus down.'”