Aaron Civale was moved to the bullpen, and he wasn't happy about it. The tension boiled over this week when Civale went public, asking for a trade through his agent. The Milwaukee Brewers responded by trading the pending free agent to the worst team in the American League.

Civale’s agent, Jack Toffey, tells Rosenthal and Sammon that the conversation he had with the Brewers baseball operations staff was “very professional” and that Civale would prefer to continue his career as a starter,