{"id":43445,"date":"2025-07-28T20:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T20:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/43445\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T20:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T20:24:08","slug":"phillies-bryce-harper-cursed-at-commissioner-in-heated-clubhouse-meeting-per-report-mlb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/43445\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies\u2019 Bryce Harper cursed at commissioner in heated clubhouse meeting, per report | MLB"},"content":{"rendered":"

Philadelphia Phillies star Bryce Harper dropped an f-bomb on Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred in a heated confrontation last week about a potential salary cap, ESPN reported<\/a> Monday.<\/p>\n

An irate Harper reportedly got in Manfred\u2019s face and told him to \u201cget the f\u2013 out of our clubhouse\u201d if he wanted to discuss such a sensitive economic issue.<\/p>\n

Manfred replied that he was \u201cnot going to get the f\u2013 out of here,\u201d insisting it was important to talk about threats to the league\u2019s business and ways to grow the game, sources told ESPN.<\/p>\n

Other players tried to defuse the situation and Harper and Manfred shook hands after the meeting, but Harper would not answer calls from Manfred the next day, per the report. The meeting was also reported last week<\/a> by The Bandwagon.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was pretty intense, definitely passionate,\u201d Phillies outfielder Nick Castellanos told ESPN. \u201cBoth of \u2019em. The commissioner giving it back to Bryce and Bryce giving it back to the commissioner. That\u2019s Harp. He\u2019s been doing this since he was 15 years old. It\u2019s just another day. I wasn\u2019t surprised.\u201c<\/p>\n

Harper, 32, is one of the game\u2019s most influential players as a two-time National League Most Valuable Player and an eight-time All-Star.<\/p>\n

The collective-bargaining agreement between MLB<\/a> and the MLB Players Association expires on 1 December, 2026. Many owners have pushed for a salary cap, as MLB is the only major men\u2019s sport in North America without one. Players are opposed, raising the specter of a potential work stoppage ahead of the 2027 season.<\/p>\n

\u201cRob seems to be in a pretty desperate place on how important it is to get this salary cap because he\u2019s floating the word lockout two years in advance of our collective bargaining agreement (expiration),\u201d Castellanos said. \u201cThat\u2019s nothing to throw around. That\u2019s the same thing as me saying in a marriage, \u2019I think divorce is a possibility. It\u2019s probably going to happen.\u2019 You don\u2019t just say those things.\u201c<\/p>\n

Harper and Manfred both declined comment to ESPN. The visit with the Phillies was one of 30 that Manfred holds annually in an effort to improve his relations with each team and its players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Phillies star Bryce Harper dropped an f-bomb on Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred in a heated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-43445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43445","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=43445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}