Rob Manfred’s tour of MLB clubhouses to prepare the soil ahead of next year’s labor negotiations recently made its stop in Philadelphia, with the commissioner visiting the Phillies’ clubhouse on Monday.
The Phillies, as reported by Hannah Keyser of The Bandwagon Substack, had time.
Keyser reports that Nick Castellanos gave her some insight about the tone of the meeting, and while we’ll encourage a visit to Keyser’s article for the full details, he characterized the conversation as “passionate,” escalating occasionally “enough for players to express some version of ‘well, in that case, you can leave.