{"id":327321,"date":"2025-10-23T20:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T20:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/327321\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T20:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T20:23:11","slug":"phillies-arent-trading-bryce-harper-says-dave-dombrowski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/327321\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies Aren\u2019t Trading Bryce Harper, Says Dave Dombrowski"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Phillies president Dave Dombrowski says team isn’t trading Bryce harper this off-season. (Photo by Mitchell Leff\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

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Chill, Phillies fans, you can chill. <\/p>\n

Phillies president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski discussed the wild rumor that has haunted Phils fans the past few days \u2014 that the team may actually trade superstar Bryce Harper this winter. \u201cThat couldn\u2019t be further from the truth,” Dombrowski said on the Foul Territory<\/a> podcast that dropped Thursday. “We love him. He\u2019s a very important part of our team.\u201d <\/p>\n

The rumor started one week ago after Dombrowski made stunning comments<\/a> during his annual season-end press conference<\/a> that Harper may no longer be an elite player. Harper\u2019s final 2025 stat-line showed a downturn in several categories. His .844 OPS was his lowest since 2016 and his .261 average was his worst since 2019. He also only hit 27 home runs, but it was clear that a wrist injury sapped his production for a stretch. “I guess we only find out if (Harper) becomes elite or if he continues to be good,\u201d he said at the press conference.<\/p>\n

Dombrowski\u2019s comments whipped around Philly sports-talk radio and social media, inciting unhinged speculation that Dombrowski is trying to trade Harper, who has six years remaining on his 13-year, $330 million deal. (Click here<\/a> if you want to see a photo that gave Phillie fans an unhealthy level of stress.)<\/p>\n

\u201cThis thing\u2019s got a life of its own,\u201d Dombrowski said of the rumor. \u201cIt\u2019s a shame where this has gone.\u201d<\/p>\n

But it wasn\u2019t all Dombrowski\u2019s fault. MLB insider Joel Sherman added fuel to the trade-Harper inferno on Tuesday when he said on Pinstripe Post<\/a> he wouldn\u2019t be shocked if Dombrowski traded Harper this off-season. <\/p>\n

Harper\u2019s agent Scott Boras even tried to quell the gossip. “I don\u2019t think Dave (Dombrowski) or (Phillies majority owner) John (Middleton) or anybody is contemplating Bryce Harper not being a Philadelphia Phillie for the rest of his career,” Boras said earlier this week in an exclusive piece by sports writer Christian Red<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Dombrowski also clarified his comments that Harper may no longer be an elite player. \u201cI said he had a very good year, I don\u2019t think he had an elite year,\u201d he said. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t meant to be a criticism\u2026 To me, Bryce Harper is one of the best players in the game of baseball.\u201d<\/p>\n

Foul Territory cohost A. J. Pierzynski then asked Dombrowski if he\u2019d consider giving Harper a contract extension, which Harper and Boras have lobbied for in the past.<\/p>\n

Dombrowski grinned and said, “Fortunately, he\u2019s already got a long contract.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phillies president Dave Dombrowski says team isn’t trading Bryce harper this off-season. (Photo by Mitchell Leff\/Getty Images) Getty…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":327322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[28222,162866,41210,1266,20414,162868,95087,62,162867,67,132,68,2386],"class_list":{"0":"post-327321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-bryce","9":"tag-dombrowski","10":"tag-harper","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-phillies","13":"tag-philly-sports","14":"tag-phils","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-trade-rumor","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-yankees"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115425352763974496","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}