Phillies first baseman Bryce Harper is fuming.
On Friday, Jon Heyman of The New York Post wrote that Harper was “pissed off” after learning that Phillies general manager Dave Dombrowski was publicly questioning his “elite” status.
Here’s an excerpt of Heyman’s story, via The New York Post:
“Harper was said by people connected to the Phillies to be ‘pissed off’ over the comments, which were shockingly candid by today’s usually sanitized standards,” Heyman writes. “Perhaps not insignificantly, Dombrowski’s words probably cast further doubt on Philly’s willingness to grant Harper’s requested extension to his original, then-record $330M, 13-year deal.”
In his postmortem, after the Phillies were eliminated from the postseason by the Dodgers in the NL Division Series, Dombrowski had thi

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