Mets' Todd Frazier responds in feud with Nationals' Adam Eaton: 'Pay off your mortgage'

NEW YORK – Following Monday’s Mets victory, Todd Frazier shook off his dust-up with Washington’s Adam Eaton, calling it “nothing.” He wouldn’t elaborate and wanted to move to the next topic.

In the other clubhouse, Eaton did the opposite, calling Frazier "childish."

On Tuesday, Frazier, upon arriving to Citi Field, clapped back:

“That’s Adam. That’s him. At the end of the day, you think about what a man really is. You settle stuff out in the field, you don’t really talk about it. That’s basically what I do. I mean, back in the day, that’s how I usually settled it. I didn’t really want to talk about it, but I heard what he said," Frazier said Monday.

"Didn’t really bother me that much, but at the end of the day, you ask guys when I played with the White Sox in 2016, ask all 23 of those guys, they know what happened. For him to even talk after that, I don’t know how you talk after that. That’s basically all I’ll say after that.

MLB SALARIES: Baseball's top 25 highest-paid players in 2024

"Men usually settle it out on the field, they don’t need to talk about it. He started it coming at me with that kind of, ‘I’m a man, I got a mortgage I’m paying, two kids.’ Pay off your mortgage, I don’t know what to tell you.”

Frazier would not expand on what happened when the two were teammates with the White Sox. He said he didn’t remember what set off Monday’s incident.

Asked why Eaton would say what he did postgame, Frazier said “it’s just immaturity.”

“If you know Adam, every team he’s been on, you hear what people say,” Frazier said. “You understand him. I was part of it for a year and a half.”

MLB POWER RANKINGS:AL East is heating up

DIETRICH: Reds utilityman tries getting MLB to loosen up

Before Tuesday's game, cameras caught the two having a discussion on the field.

Frazier was traded to the White Sox in 2015 from the Reds before being dealt at the 2017 trade deadline to the Yankees. Eaton was traded to the Nationals in 2016.

Their issues continued even after the two left Chicago. Eaton injured Phillip Evans with a slide last season and the Mets were not happy with it.

Frazier on Tuesday said he’s not surprised it hasn’t ended. He added that he doesn’t believe he’ll ever say anything to Eaton about it.

“It’s in the past,” Frazier said, “but at the same time, you don’t forget about some things.”