Adam LaRoche issued a statement via Twitter on Friday regarding his decision to retire this week amid reports that the Chicago White Sox didn't son his teenage son around the club.

LaRoche said in the statement that before he signed his two-year, $25 million contract last year, "my first question to the club concerned my [son Drake's] ability to be a part of the team. After some due diligence on the club's part, we reached an agreement" and there were no problems with his son's presence in the clubhouse in 2015.

White Sox vice president Kenny Williams then advised LaRoche this spring that he had to "scale back" the amount of time his son spent in the clubhouse.

"Later, I was told not to bring him to the ballpark at all," LaRoche said. "Obviously, I expressed my displeasure toward this decision to alter the agreement we had reached before I signed with the White Sox."

LaRoche said in his statement that the 2016 season "was likely to be the last year of my career, and there's no way I was going to spend it without my son."