No energetic Main League Baseball participant has ever come out of the closet. The alphabet mafia is hoping for that day, however for now, LGBTQABCD of us can solely get excited when obscure minor leaguer announce that he is gay whereas enjoying within the bus leagues or any person comes out after he is given up baseball. 

The alphabet crowd was crowing over the weekend when Anderson Comas, a pitcher someplace within the depths of the Chicago White Sox group introduced he digs guys. 

The Chisox introduced on Twitter, “We’re all so happy with you, Anderson!” Oddly sufficient, the Sox publish additionally included the title of singer Woman Gaga and the title of her tune “Born This Manner.” No matter.

Comas, 23, pitched final season for the Kannapolis, N.C. Cannon Ballers, a Class A affiliate of the White Sox. He was known as to the mound simply 11 occasions and recorded an terrible 6.35 earned run common. His unearned delight common is now hovering although. 

White Sox assistant common supervisor/participant growth Chris Getz tweeted the group is “proud” of Anderson, who advised the membership final yr he’s queer. That ploy could have been his best choice to not get launched for his terrible pitching performances. Getz commented: 

“And I used to be more than happy that he was comfy sharing with us in participant growth. I additionally was blissful on the response throughout the group, which as you’ll count on was to help, assist and congratulate a teammate. Together with his social media publish at the moment, we’re so happy with Anderson and that he’s comfy sharing such an essential private a part of his life so overtly.” 

Heterosexual gamers are by no means congratulated or celebrated for serving to to boost the subsequent technology of human beings. 

Comas took an adversarial method from the get-go in an Instagram message declaring his sexual id. “Should you’re homophobic this publish could not (be) for you….so you may see all of us matter and all of us are the identical… 

“I’m doing this trigger I wanna be an inspiration for these like me on the market becoming for his or her desires, please don’t take heed to these silly issues that individuals say about us, struggle to your desires, consider in your self and go for it.” 

Then Comas boasted about himself and his delight: 

“I’m additionally a human with an excellent soul, I’m respectful, I’m a lover, I like my household and associates and that’s what actually issues, I get pleasure from my work loads, being knowledgeable baseball participant is the most effective factor that occurred to me so I simply wanna say one thing to these individuals that claims that homosexual individuals cannot be somebody on this life, effectively have a look at me I’m Homosexual and I’m knowledgeable athlete in order that didn’t stopped (sic) me to make my desires come true.” 

The Dominican is the primary minor league baseball participant to come back out since pitcher Solomon Bates did so — after the San Francisco Giants group launched him final yr. One other former minor leaguer was David Denson, of the Milwaukee group, in 2015. Sean Conroy pitched for the minor league Sonoma, Calif. Stompers a couple of years in the past, and the lineup card from that recreation is – ridiculously – on show within the Baseball Corridor of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. 

That’s proper: an LBGTQABCD minor leaguer has an artifact within the Corridor, however Shoeless Joe Jackson, the fourth-greatest hitter in baseball historical past, is just not represented there as a result of he knew in regards to the 1919 Black Sox scandal. He refused to hitch teammates who threw the World Collection in change for money from gambler Arnold Rothstein. 

MLB additionally went wild in its delight celebrations final June.