Phillies’ Bryce Harper cursed at commissioner in heated clubhouse meeting, per report | MLB
The Philadelphia Phillies star, Bryce Harper, dropped an F bomb on the major baseball league commissioner, Rob Manfred, in an animated confrontation last week on a potential salary ceiling, ESPN reported on Monday.
An Irate Harper would have had Manfred’s face and would have told him to “withdraw the F – from our clubhouse” if he wanted to discuss such a sensitive economic problem.
Manfred replied that he “was not going to take out the F – from here”, insisting that it was important to talk about threats to the business of the League and the means of developing the game, sources told ESPN.
Other players tried to defuse the situation and Harper and Manfred shake hands after the meeting, but Harper would not answer Manfred’s calls the next day, according to the report. The meeting was also reported last week by the train.
“It was quite intense, definitively passionate,” said the Phillies Nick Castellanos Phillies in ESPN. “Both. The commissioner gives him back to Bryce and Bryce bringing him over to the commissioner. He’s Harp. He has been doing this since he was 15 years old. It’s just another day. I was not surprised.”
Harper, 32, is one of the most influential players in the game as a most useful double player in the national league and eight stars.
The collective barage agreement between MLB and the MLB Players Association expires on December 1, 2026. Many owners have put pressure for a salary ceiling, because the MLB is the only major male sport in North America without one. The players are opposed, increasing the spectrum of a potential work stoppage before the 2027 season.
“Rob seems to be in a fairly desperate place on the importance of obtaining this salary ceiling because it floated the local word two years before our collective driving (expiration),” said Castellanos. “It’s nothing to do. It’s the same thing as me saying in a marriage: “I think divorce is a possibility. It will probably happen. You don’t just say these things.
Harper and Manfred both refused to comment at ESPN. The Phillies visit was one of the 30 that Manfred holds each year in order to improve their relations with each team and its players.
