PHOENIX — Baseball union chief Tony Clark called the public comments surrounding the salary arbitration hearing involving Yankees reliever Dellin Betances “unprecedented” and “unprofessional.”

On Saturday, New York Yankees President Randy Levine said Betances’ representatives had “over-the-top demands based on very little sense of reality” seeking a $5 million salary for 2017. The Yankees won Friday’s hearing and are set to pay Betances $3 million for this season.

“There was a lot said,” Clark, executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, said Sunday during his annual visit to the Cactus League in spring training. “That was most troubling thing. As you read and heard yesterday, that conversation and the particulars being made public in the fashion that they were, is unprecedented and is unprofessional and should not have happened in the fashion that it did.”

Betances called it “unfair” to take him into a room to “trash me for about an hour and a half.” Levine accused the pitcher’s agents of using him to chase what Levine considered closer-like money though Betances is a setup man.