USA TODAY Kevin Mather, whose startling comments about service-time suppression, foreign-born players' English skills and the inner workings of the Seattle Mariners roiled the baseball industry, resigned as the team's president and CEO on Monday, according to club chairman John Stanton. Mather, 58, made the comments during a Feb. 5 virtual meeting with the Bellevue (Washington) Breakfast Rotary Club, and they were unearthed from YouTube by a Mariners fan Sunday. By day's end, top Mariners prospect Julio Rodriguez tweeted his dissatisfaction with a comment criticizing his bilingual acumen, and the flap also resurfaced complaints of harassment Mather faced as club executive vice president in 2009 and 2010.