ANAHEIM, Calif. — Standing in front of his locker late Friday night, Julio Rodríguez could have pushed the discussion to another day. Coming off a fourth straight Mariners loss wasn’t necessarily the optimal time to talk about something as personal as having his home invaded.

But Rodríguez wanted to address what happened more than a month ago and how it’s impacted him and those close to him in the time since.

“Obviously, they just brought it out now, but it happened a while back ago and that’s a lot of the things that kind of happened behind the scenes that a lot of people don’t know. But it was very difficult at times to be out there,” Rodríguez said.

Rodríguez was one of four athletes in the Seattle area hit by a string of targeted home burglaries that happened over the span of severa

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