It started last July, when Logan Morrison questioned Major League Baseball’s selection process for the Home Run Derby. He had 24 homers at the time, the Yankees’ Gary Sanchez had 13. MLB chose Sanchez for the derby. Morrison debated the move and said Sanchez did not belong.

That went over real well with Yankees fans. Morrison, then with Tampa Bay and now with Minnesota, was asked about the matter recently and how he felt fans in The Bronx would respond.

“They didn’t like the Gary Sanchez thing with the Home Run Derby,” Morrison told the (St. Paul) Pioneer Press, “but you can’t fix stupid, you know?”

Wednesday before the Twins played the Yankees at the Stadium, Morrison insisted the “stupid” referred to the process, not Yankees fans. But he did give the Yankees supporters a mild shot for their treatment of his former Miami teammate, Giancarlo Stanton.

“We’re talking about something that happened last July and we’re talking about something Gary and I have already squashed,” Morrison said. “I didn’t mean anything toward Gary. It wasn’t anything toward the Yankees fans. It was everything toward MLB and the selection process. So if they’re going to still get on me for it, they can still get on me for it but they’re just wasting their time. They could spend their energies doing something else.

“You’re booing a guy that was the MVP of the league in the NL last year. He’s got [five] homers and how many RBI [14] and it’s April and he’s struggling? I don’t know, maybe if you encourage that guy, he might even do better,” Morrison said.