{"id":286599,"date":"2025-11-12T03:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T03:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/286599\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T03:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T03:55:09","slug":"dave-dombrowski-has-good-conversation-with-bryce-harper-stays-mum-on-specifics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/286599\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Dombrowski has ‘good conversation’ with Bryce Harper, stays mum on specifics"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jesse RogersNov 11, 2025, 10:31 PM ET<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>Jesse joined ESPN Chicago in September 2009 and covers MLB for ESPN.com.<\/p>\n

LAS VEGAS — Phillies<\/a> president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski said he had a long conversation with star Bryce Harper<\/a> recently but wouldn’t go into specifics about what the two discussed. The talk came after recent comments<\/a> by Dombrowski seemed to irk Harper whose .844 OPS last season was his lowest since 2016.<\/p>\n

“I’ve spoken to him,” Dombrowski said at baseball’s general manager meetings Tuesday. “We had a nice conversation. Everything went well.”<\/p>\n

After the Phillies were ousted by the Dodgers<\/a> in the NL Division Series in October, Dombrowski openly wondered if Harper could return to the best version of himself. Harper had a good season in 2025 but it wasn’t close to a career year which included a 3-for-15 performance in the postseason.<\/p>\n

“He’s still a quality player. He’s still an All-Star-caliber player,” Dombrowski said last month. “He didn’t have an elite season like he’s had in the past. I guess we only find out if he becomes elite or he continues to be good.”<\/p>\n

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Harper said he was “hurt” by the comments.<\/p>\n

“It’s disappointing to hear me being questioned about my contribution to the team,” Harper told The Athletic. “Just really hurt by that notion because I love Philly so much.”<\/p>\n

It prompted the recent conversation between Dombrowski and Harper, characterized as a “productive” one by the Phillies boss.<\/p>\n

“We had a good conversation,” Dombrowski stated. “We talked for quite a while. And really, conversations between Bryce and myself are between us.”<\/p>\n

Harper is in the middle of a 13-year, $330 million contract with Philadelphia, signed before the 2019 season. He finished sixth in MVP voting in 2024 after winning the award with the Phillies in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jesse RogersNov 11, 2025, 10:31 PM ET CloseJesse joined ESPN Chicago in September 2009 and covers MLB for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-286599","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}