A-Rod Called "Classless" by Injured Pitcher’s Agent for Yu Darvish Comments

In his role as an analyst on Sunday Night Baseball, retired slugger Alex Rodriguez hasn’t exactly been a hit with Major League Baseball fans.

Thanks to comments he made during Sunday night’s game between the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals, Rodriguez is becoming just as unpopular with MLB agents.

While watching injured pitcher Yu Darvish in the Chicago dugout during the game, Rodriguez said the hurler’s presence was a distraction to the team.

Here's Alex Rodriguez making shit up about Yu Darvish and the Cubs. pic.twitter.com/3KmUyCc6Nu

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“When you have a guy that signs an enormous contract and he’s sitting down, and you walk in the training room, and he’s got two trainers working on him, you go into the video room and you have a guy looking at video. He should be in Arizona somewhere getting treated. But don’t get in the way of 25 players going after one mission: to win a ballgame,” Rodriguez said on the ESPN telecast.

Darvish’s agent Joel Wolfe fired back at Rodriguez’s comments about his client and called them “classless.”

“I think it was classless and bordered on unprofessional to take a little nugget of somewhat exaggerated information from one person that maybe he had history with and turning that into a spokesman for the entire team,” Wolfe told The Athletic. “[A-Rod’s] attacking a player who is injured and on the disabled list, which is difficult for any player, especially one who has a big contract and is in his first year [with a new team]. Imagine how difficult it is for Darvish. But then also attacking him for staying with the team?”

Darvish inked a six-year, $126 million deal with the Cubs before the season and is just 1-3 with a 4.95 ERA in eight starts. He has been on the disabled list twice and has been out with triceps tendinitis since the end of May.