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Francisco Rodriguez was back in the clubhouse at Citi Field today, rejoining his teammates after a two-game ban following his arrest for allegedly assaulting the father of his girlfriend.

The troubled closer did not address his teammates, but spoke for about one minute in front of reporters without answering questions before the Mets hosted the Phillies. He admitted that he will be entering an anger management program.

“First of all, I’m extremely sorry. I want to apologize to [team owners] Fred Wilpon, Jeff Wilpon and [team president] Mr. [Saul] Katz for the incident that happened Wednesday night. I want to apologize also to the Mets fans, to my teammates. I want to apologize, of course, to the front office for the embarrassment that I caused and I’m looking forward to [being] a better person. Right now, the plan is I’m gonna be going to anger management program and I cannot speak no further about the legal stuff that we’re going through right now. I just want to apologize.”

And with that statement, the press conference was cut off by a team PR official.

Rodriguez is expected to be available to pitch tonight, if necessary.

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