The tension has been building for five-and-a-half weeks—when the Miami Marlins traded Giancarlo Stanton at the start of the MLB Winter Meetings, Christian Yelich could see the club heading in a rebuilding direction...and decided he didn’t want any part of it.
After previously expressing his displeasure through backchannels, Yelich’s agent Joe Longo came right out and said it on Tuesday night (via ESPN’s Jerry Crasnick):
“[The Marlins] have a plan. I respect that plan, but that plan shouldn’t include Christian at this point in his career.