Bryce Harper makes brutally honest comment about Phillies' manager change

Philadelphia Phillies first baseman Bryce Harper made a brutally honest comment about how the team’s recent managerial change may have helped them.

The Phillies are 7-1 since firing Rob Thomson. 

Harper admitted there was probably a correlation between those two things, and that Thomson’s firing brought a finality that allowed the players to turn the page on a bad April.

“I think we were all just waiting for that ball to drop, waiting for something to happen,” Harper admitted, per MLB.com's Todd Zolecki. “If Topper was going to get fired or he wasn’t, it was just kind of, ‘We need to get over this hump and get through this,’ whatever that looked like.

"So as a team, I think it’s just coming out, playing our game, understanding that we didn’t play well the first couple weeks of the season. April’s behind us. We’ve got to step forward and understand that we’re stacking days and playing better and just keep it going, no matter where we’re at, what’s happening in the game or anything. Just stack the days and be where we want to be at the end."