He’s back.
Former MLB player Aubrey Huff returned to X after he deleted his account earlier this week when Isabella Maria DeLuca, a 23-year-old influencer and political activist, called him out for shooting his shot in her DMs before he belittled her in a separate post.
Huff explained why he left the platform temporarily in a bunch of replies to X users who claimed he went into hiding after being “exposed” by DeLuca.
“I was on vacation with my kids,” Huff wrote in response to an X user who said he “f–ked up” by deleting his account. “Knew it would distract me that kind of heat. So I waited till I got home and the boys went to their moms.
“So here I am. Imagine a guy more concerned about his kids than his social media credibility. The horror!!!”
Huff and his ex-wife, Barbara Heaton, share two sons, Jayce, 15, and Jagger, 13.
X/Isabella Maria DeLuca.
Huff sent a message to those “passing judgment” about the situation after his return to X.
“It’s called Google,” he wrote. “Famous people like myself aren’t hard to find. If you figure out how to use the internet you’ll find I’ve been divorced for 6 years. Last I checked, there’s no crime for a single dude DM’ing a broad.”
Huff also joked that you “miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take” in life.
“Was it even bad!?” he questioned in another post. “So what, I struck out publicly. Something I did 907 times on a national stage during my 13 year @MLB career.
“If anything @IsabellaMDeLuca struck out with the bases loaded to end game 7 of her World Series! Not to many get a shot at the title.”
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Huff has since blocked DeLuca on X, and she has done the same, according to separate screenshots they posted.
“My how the tables have turned,” he wrote. “This was truly all in good fun for me. Too bad she didn’t see it that way.
“Some people just take things way too seriously. It’s really a shame people can’t have more fun on this platform.”
Huff claimed he only felt embarrassed because he didn’t do his research before contacting DeLuca.
“Only thing I’m embarrassed for is the lack of homework,” he wrote in another post. “But hey, we strike out sometime. All we can do is step back in the box. Trust me, it’s really hard to embarrass me.”
When another user on X said Huff isn’t DeLuca’s type, he disagreed.
“Oh I’m her type…I’m every woman’s type,” he replied.
DeLuca claimed Huff was a married man when he slid into her DMs on X with a message that read: “Hey beautiful let’s Colab [collaborate] over cocktails and bad decisions,” with a winking face emoji.
DeLuca posted a screen grab of a message sent from Huff’s verified account on X on Dec. 25.
The 47-year-old Huff and Heaton divorced in 2017, 10 years after the tied the knot on January 27, 2007.
DeLuca claimed Huff messaged her after he tagged her in post talking down about her.
“[It’s] proof that most today’s women even know… their sexuality is all they bring to the table,” Huff wrote, according to screenshots on X.
“Complete with a desperate need for attention, crippling debt, drama, delusional self worth, & a complete lack of accountability.”
“I’ve been down the slide into some DM’s for sure. Who hasn’t?” he said when someone asked if he ever “made those bad decisions” with DeLuca.
“I say I’m batting .500 in my lifetime. I struck out on that one. But by the looks of it, it’s a strike out I’ll take all day.”
Huff, who played for 13 MLB seasons, is a two-time World Series champion with the San Francisco Giants.
He retired in 2014, and has since become vocal on social media about politics.
Huff was previously suspended from X (previously Twitter) on two separate occasions in 2021 for spreading disinformation about COVID-19 and his comments on the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol building.
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