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Ryne Sandberg, a Hall of Fame second baseman who became one of baseball’s best all-around players while starring for the Chicago Cubs, has died. He was 65.
Before a July 21 game, Harper reportedly told the commissioner to leave the Phillies clubhouse if he was there to discuss an eventual change in the sport’s economic system.
Phillies star Bryce Harper allegedly stood nose-to-nose with MLB commissioner Rob Manfred as talk of a salary cap turned heated.
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After Philadelphia Phillies star Bryce Harper got in the face of Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred during a heated meeting last week, Mark DeRosa, a former big leaguer who now works for Manfred, said something some players took as a threat, according to four people who attended the meeting or were briefed on it.
Bryce Harper told MLB commissioner Rob Manfred to "get the f--- out of our clubhouse" during a meeting with the Phillies about the game's economics, sources told ESPN.
That was evidenced last weekend, when commissioner Rob Manfred visited the Phillies clubhouse in an attempt to find common ground with the players. Instead, what happened was a heated argument between Manfred and the Phillies players, in which star Bryce Harper told Manfred to "get the f--- out of our clubhouse," according to ESPN's Jeff Passan.
The Yankees and Phillies won’t start their series finale on Sunday afternoon at Yankee Stadium on time. Rain has been falling in the Bronx over the last few hours. The tarp at Yankee Stadium wasn’t removed from the field until shortly before 1:30,