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On Saturday, Buster Olney wrote about the possibility of the Los Angeles Dodgers trading mercurial right fielder Yasiel Puig. The trade rumors for Puig will get even hotter after Andy Van Slyke -- father of Dodgers outfielder Scott Van Slyke -- implied in a radio interview that Clayton Kershaw had said the team should trade Puig:

This is a problem, of course, the biggest name on the team calling out Puig, even if through the unusual circumstance of a father of another player.

The Dodgers backhandedly admitted Puig needed to upgrade his work ethic at the general managers meeting last week when President of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedman said they wanted him to lose weight.