Following the Seattle Mariners' victory over the Toronto Blue Jays on Wednesday, catcher hit a go-ahead home run and then criticized Blue Jays manager John Schneider for his comments made last year. Raleigh suggesting that Schneider holds grudges against many individuals in the league.
The question in context stems from last April when Raleigh hit two home runs against the Blue Jays in a 10-8 comeback win. Schneider's remarks about Raleigh following that game are relevant here.
"He's not very tough to pitch to when you execute your pitches. He's hitting .200. I know he's done damage against us and I think if you execute, he's obviously got big damage potential and he's got a lot of strikeout potential, too, and when you execute your pitches, you usually get the job done." - Schneider
It didn't seem that Raleigh took the comments that personal, but maybe he just prefers to do his talking with his bat who has a career 1.091 OPS against Toronto.
"His comments aren't surprising and I don't have much to say. If you don't have anything nice, don't say it at all I guess, if you don't want it to come back on you. Like I said, he's got a lot of beef with people in the league and he kind of did it to himself."