"Tampa Bay Rays manager Joe Maddon revealed before Monday's game he did talk with Manny Ramirez on Friday.

Ramirez made the first call, and after the two exchanged voice messages, Ramirez eventually reached his former manager.

"I was pretty much taken by it, because I didn't expect that to happen," Maddon said. "The fact that he and I have only been together for a brief period of time personally and as an organization, I didn't know if he'd be moved or motivated to do that, but he was and he was very kind in his comments. He expressed disappointment in himself to me. ... I took him for his word right there."

Maddon said Ramirez did not apologize for violating Major League Baseball's performance-enhancing drug policy or for retiring abruptly.

"He just said he was disappointed. He didn't necessarily apologize, and I wasn't looking for an apology necessarily. I wasn't," Maddon said. "He spoke to me kind of like, man-to-man, person-to-person, manager-to-player. So I didn't think he owed me an apology.""