Ben Zobrist’s wife seeks $4M in divorce, he says she ‘coaxed’ him to return | New York Post

Julianna Zobrist, the wife of former Chicago Cubs star Ben Zobrist, is seeking $4 million as she claimed her husband allegedly failed to “preserve marital assets” when he took a leave of absence from the Major League Baseball team in 2019.

In court documents obtained by the Chicago Tribune on Monday, Julianna Zobrist claimed the 2016 World Series MVP “intentionally and voluntarily stopped working” and went from “the top of his game” to “giving up” which affected the household income.

She is reportedly seeking an even split of marital assets and the large sums claiming the figure is the “amount of money he failed to preserve by abruptly and intentionally failing to satisfy his baseball contract.”

According to Spotrac, Zobrist is estimated to have made about $78.3 million during his 13-year baseball career.

The former MLB player’s attorney, Helen S. Rogers, called the claim “utterly absurd” in a filing to the judge who is set to handle the divorce proceedings. Rogers said that Julianna Zobrist’s alleged affair with former Tennessee pastor Byron Yawn caused the outfielder “extreme mental distress” and added that the singer “coaxed” her husband into returning to the Cubs.

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