Dodgers’ Miguel Rojas responds to Yankees’ Jazz Chisholm’s snide comments

The Los Angeles Dodgers currently hold a 3-0 lead over the New York Yankees in the 2024 World Series.

Game 4 is Tuesday night and the Dodgers are one win away from capturing their second World Series title in five years.

As the teams continue to compete on the field, a major storyline that surfaced at the start of this season has resurfaced, involving a player on each team.

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Early this season, then-Miami Marlins All-Star Jazz Chisholm Jr. some harsh words for his former teammate, now Dodgers infielder Miguel Rojas.

In an appearance on The Pivot PodcastChisholm called out the Marlins’ “team captain” for not only being a bad team captain, but also a bad person.

“I was already a team leader without being called a team leader. But the vets, you can’t be a team leader when you have guys in the clubhouse who have been there for nine to 10 years, even though they suck, they” I’ve been there for nine to ten years and the team calls them the team captain,” said Chisholm.

“But they’re not a good captain, they’re not a good person, you’re not even a good athlete right now. You’re just here. And you’re bringing down the young guys who are supposed to be good.” .”

Rojas responded to these comments on the website in March Chris Rose rotation. He was understandably upset.

“If you cross a line and say I’m not a good person, and I’m just there because, I think he thinks I’m telling someone I need to be there and please keep me here so I can for ten years Being a Major League Baseball player, that bothers me,” Rojas said.

Now, with Chisholm on the Yankees and the teams facing off in the World Series, Rojas was asked again about these comments in one interview with the New York Post.

This time, Rojas was clearly ready to move on.

“I don’t really pay much attention to people’s opinions, except for the people I really care about,” Rojas told The Post. “I can’t really tell you anything about his opinion because I don’t take his opinion the way he spoke.”

Rojas added, “I feel like I know my value. And I know what I bring to a team. No one needs to reinforce that.”

Asked about the incident before the World Series started, Chisholm said the former teammates had not spoken since their days in Miami.

“Like I said, I don’t have anything on it,” Chisholm said. “I go there, I play baseball and I enjoy baseball. Nothing more, nothing less.”

The Yankees and Dodgers play Tuesday night in what could be the last game of 2024 MLB season.

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