Phillies' Bryce Harper sends apparent message to team exec in TikTok post after criticism

Bryce Harper seemed to person a connection for a cardinal look of his ain team.

Shortly aft the Philadelphia Phillies were ousted from the postseason, president of shot operations Dave Dombrowski proclaimed that his prima archetypal baseman "didn't person an elite play similar helium has had successful the past."

He wasn't precisely incorrect — Harper deed .261 with an .844 OPS successful 2025, some little than his vocation averages. In some of his MVP seasons, helium deed implicit .300 with an OPS of implicit 1.000.

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Bryce Harper of the Philadelphia Phillies laughs during the crippled betwixt the Philadelphia Phillies and the Minnesota Twins astatine Citizens Bank Park successful Philadelphia. (Terence Lewis/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

Harper voiced his displeasure with Dombrowski's comments soon afterward, and the 2 are said to person discussed the substance successful private. However, it doesn't look similar Harper is wholly implicit it.

In a caller TikTok station of himself astatine a batting cage, Harper was seen wearing a garment that read, "NOT ELITE."

Harper turned 33 1 week aft the Phillies were eliminated by the Los Angeles Dodgers, who yet won their 2nd consecutive World Series. The Phillies person been a mainstay successful October this decennary but person been incapable to get implicit the hump.

Bryce Harper of the Philadelphia Phillies looks connected during the 4th inning against the Detroit Tigers astatine Citizens Bank Park connected Aug. 1, 2025, successful Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  (Caean Couto/Getty Images)

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Dombrowski said Harper was "still an All-Star caliber player," but "we (can) lone find retired if helium becomes elite oregon if helium continues to beryllium good."

"I look astir the league … Freddie Freeman. He’s a truly bully player, right? He inactive is simply a bully player. Is helium elite similar helium was before? Probably not to the aforesaid extent. Freddie’s a tremendous player. And, that to me, is Bryce. Can helium emergence to the adjacent level again?" Dombrowski said. "I don’t truly cognize that answer.

"I mean, really, he’s the 1 that volition dictate that much than thing else, is what it comes down to. I don’t deliberation he’s contented with the twelvemonth that helium had. And, again, it wasn’t a atrocious year, but erstwhile I deliberation of Bryce Harper, you’re reasoning elite, you’re reasoning 1 of the apical 10 players successful baseball, and I don’t deliberation [his 2025 season] acceptable into that category. But, again, precise bully player."

Bryce Harper of the Philadelphia Phillies bats successful the archetypal inning against the San Francisco Giants astatine Citizens Bank Park connected April 14, 2025, successful Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  (Emilee Chinn/Getty Images)

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Harper played successful 132 games this season, landing connected the injured database with a wrist injury. He signed a 13-year, $330 cardinal woody with the Phillies up of the 2019 season.

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