Los Angeles Dodgers infielder Miguel Rojas states he was upset by criticism from previous Miami Marlins teammate Jazz Chisholm Jr.
The 35-calendar year-old Rojas spoke on “The Chris Rose Rotation” podcast released Tuesday and responded to remarks Chisholm built on ” The Pivot Podcast” released March 19, hosted by former NFL players Ryan Clark, Channing Crowder and Fred Taylor.
Chisholm, 26, had explained his initial three significant league seasons from 2020-22 were being “the worst a few many years of most likely my life” and mentioned how he felt Marlins’ veterans mistreated younger players like himself. Chisholm referred specially to somebody as the “team captain” without having mentioning that player by title.
“Even although they suck, they’ve been there for nine, 10 several years and the staff phone calls them the group captain, but they are not a great captain, they are not a fantastic human being,” Chisholm stated. “You’re not even a superior athlete at this position. You are just right here and you’re bringing down the younger guys that are supposed to be good.”
The Marlins did not have a captain in these many years but Rojas was regarded as an unofficial captain. Rojas played for the Marlins from 2015-22, then was traded to the Dodgers in January 2023.
Rojas mentioned he figured out about Chisholm’s opinions from media customers, his agent and kin.
“You can consider that I suck at baseball, that I’m not a good player, that I’m not a great leader,” Rojas claimed. “But when you cross a line and say that I’m not a excellent man or woman and I’m there just for the reason that, I guess he’s considering that I’m telling another person that I’m meant to be there and, ‘Please maintain me right here so I can be a important league baseball participant for 10 yrs,’ which is what sort of bothers me.”
Chisholm, a 2022 All-Star, stated he was not happy all through his initial 3 seasons with the Marlins because “you had vets that detest, detest what you do and who you are.” Chisholm, an avid shoe collector, discussed one way in which an unnamed veteran received underneath his pores and skin.
“My to start with calendar year in the large leagues, I get to the locker room, I have bought 20 pairs of cleats,” Chisholm explained. “Everybody know I’m a massive shoe guy. I have got about 20 pairs of cleats, seven or 8 pairs of just shoes to go and exercise in, and I’ve obtained like 100 pairs of batting gloves –- all personalized. Almost everything is personalized. Nothing at all is ordinary. Very little is white. Very little is black. Everything has coloration.
“I consider within the very first 7 days, just one of my vets minimize up my cleats, poured milk in my cleats and threw them in the trash and mentioned, ‘Those shoes are unattractive, bro. Get some new types.’ I do not want to say what I did on digital camera, but certainly I was not the rookie that took that effortless. I certainly went and threw his complete locker in the trash. That’s me. You’re not likely to occur more than here and mess with the items that I labored tricky to style and design myself.”
Without referencing that unique incident, Rojas reported he was sad that Chisholm unveiled factors that happened in the locker home by noting “that’s our house” and “there’s things that should really by no means depart the clubhouse.”
Rojas explained the Marlins’ veterans basically were seeking to hold youthful gamers accountable for their steps.
“Do you think they are the first ever players to be rookies in the league and be dealt with this way?” Rojas claimed. “You have to know that there’s players prior to you that have been taken care of the similar way or worse. That does not give them a explanation to go on a podcast and converse about the veteran gamers and what they did to them.”
Chisholm credited Marlins manager Skip Schumaker for modifying the society just after arriving past calendar year, aiding Miami make its first playoff berth in a non-pandemic time because its 2003 Planet Collection title.
“He acquired rid of everybody who did not want to do it like that,” Chisholm said. “And which is how it is intended to be. You ain’t intended to have a vet that is making an attempt to provide down the rookies.”
Rojas was requested if he’d be willing to sit down and converse with Chisholm to consider to get the job done this out sometime down the highway.
“As shortly as you have the sort of assumption on me and the human being that I am, I’m not up to possessing a individual in my lifetime or nearly anything that thinks I’m a undesirable human being or a piece of (trash),” Rojas replied.
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