New York Yankees president Randy Levine has challenged Alex Rodriguez to release his medical records to support assertions that the team misled him about the extent of his injuries in the hopes he would be unable to play again.

"Alex should put up or shut up," Levine said,

The New York Times reported that Joseph Tacopina, Rodriguez's new attorney, alleged Levine had told Dr. Bryan Kelly, who was about to perform hip surgery on Rodriguez in January, "I don't ever want to see him on the field again."

"We will put up, mark my words, we will put up," Tacopina said. "[Levine] is always a very big talker, but he is going to be humbled eventually. He is acting in a way that if his bosses and superiors and the Steinbrenner family have any sense of decency, if they are true to what the Yankees' heritage is, they would be appalled with how their president is acting. We will put up."

Tacopina alleged that Levine wanted Kelly to help ensure Rodriguez could not return to the field again so the Yankees could collect insurance on the final $114 million remaining on his contract heading into this season.

"That's nonsense," Levine said of all the allegations. "You can't even respond to a thing like that."