Ex-MLB Pitcher T.J. House Comes Out, Announces Engagement To His Boyfriend

Former Major League Baseball player T.J. House came out as gay and announced his engagement to his partner, Ryan Neitzel, in an emotional social media, reports NBC News.

House, who pitched for the Cleveland Indians and the Toronto Blue Jays from 2014 to 2017, said he lived out his childhood dream of playing professional baseball in Cleveland at 23, but that he used it as a “drug” to “numb what was really going on inside.” 

“Deep down I wanted something more, I wanted to be loved not for what I did, but who I was,” he said in a Facebook post.