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After Josh Hader’s racist, homophobic and generally reprehensible tweets came to light during the All-Star Game, the Brewers reliever will be required to complete sensitivity training and participate in MLB’s diversity and inclusion initiatives.

Part of that will include a meeting with Billy Bean, MLB’s ambassador for inclusion, Brewers GM Davis Stearns and manager Craig Counsell on Friday, per the USA Today.

“We are moving quickly,” Bean, who came out as gay four years ago, told the newspaper. “We have to be 100 percent transparent. I’ll learn a lot more about him when I speak to him. He will have every opportunity to do right by the league, and be a role model if he wants to. He could grasp this opportunity from a very unfortunate experience and be a role model.

“The choices are up to him.”

When addressing the tweets after the All-Star Game, Hader used youth as an excuse, saying he was just 17.

“As a child, I was immature,” Hader said. “I obviously said some things that were inexcusable. That doesn’t reflect on who I am as a person today. That’s just what it is.”

Hader is expected to address his teammates, who did not know about his old views, before Friday’s game. One, Jesus Aguilar, already expressed forgiveness, tweeting, “Obviously he’s not racist.”

Hader’s tweets directly contradict that sentence.

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