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Andrew Joseph

Fans crushed ex-MLB player Jeff Frye after he called out Manny Ramirez’s son for celebrating a HR

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While it certainly seems like MLB has made progress to embrace the personality of its players, there will always be people out there who want baseball players to act like emotionless robots.

And oh man, former MLB player Jeff Frye went to some wild lengths to make that argument this week.

Manny Ramirez’s son, Lucas, had himself a weekend to remember at the plate in the 2023 World Wood Bat Association (WWBA) tournament in Georgia where he hit a walk-off home run to send his travel team to the championship game. For a high school player, it’s a huge moment. And you better believe that Lucas — a Tennessee commit — had every right to celebrate the walk-off shot.

Yet, Frye saw footage of Lucas rounding the bases and thought the home run celebration was worth blasting the young player over. On top of that, Frye — who is also an MLBPA agent — argued that Lucas’ father would never do that.

Again, Lucas’ father is Manny Ramirez. The same Manny Ramirez who has an entire montage of admiring home runs.

It’s one thing to have a problem with bat flips. It’s another to completely rewrite history while criticizing a youth baseball player. It was a massive home run for Lucas, and baseball needs more of that enthusiasm.

Fans honestly couldn’t believe that Frye managed to come up with such a terrible take.

This was how Twitter reacted

Yeah, Jeff should sit this one out.

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