"He's nobody to me," an angry Stokes told The Post yesterday, his voice quivering as he spoke.
"In one ear and out the other," Stokes said before last night's 11-0 debacle against the Braves. "It's his opinion. I could not care less about it. I'm not going to try to start anything with him, but if that's how he feels about my role, that's fine. If that makes him sleep better at night, fine with me."
"I'm in uniform, right?" Stokes said. "I'm in the major leagues, right? Every time I go out there, I do the best I can to keep the team in the ballgame. I think every single person in here has a responsible role."
"I'm not surprised at all," Stokes said.
"I don't really know him, and we've never really talked, so I don't know why he would think to talk about me," Stokes said.