Alex Rodriguez casually questioned the heart and commitment of Yu Darvish during Sunday's telecast. Rodriguez suggested Darvish is a clubhouse distraction.

Darvish signed a six-year, $126 million deal with the Chicago Cubs last winter.

“If this story had come from a credible journalist, we might have shown some concern,” said Joel Wolfe, Darvish’s agent and the co-managing executive of the Wasserman agency’s baseball division. “But it came from A-Rod, so we’re paying it little attention.”

Darvish hasn’t pitched in a big-league game since May 20 while dealing with right elbow impingement and inflammation.

“I think it was classless,” Wolfe said, “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.

“Joe Maddon cleared that up afterwards. [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?

“During A-Rod’s absurd comments, the video shows that Darvish was right there on the top step in the dugout cheering on his teammates, which is what you want from somebody like that. He wasn’t hiding out in Mesa at the spring-training complex or back home like A-Rod was when he was suspended.”