{"id":31756,"date":"2022-06-01T07:47:10","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T07:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/why-reds-tommy-pham-says-mike-trout-shares-some-responsibility-for-joc-pederson-slap-incident\/"},"modified":"2022-06-01T07:47:10","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T07:47:10","slug":"why-reds-tommy-pham-says-mike-trout-shares-some-responsibility-for-joc-pederson-slap-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/why-reds-tommy-pham-says-mike-trout-shares-some-responsibility-for-joc-pederson-slap-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Reds’ Tommy Pham says Mike Trout shares some responsibility for Joc Pederson slap incident"},"content":{"rendered":"
BOSTON – As Tommy Pham walked toward the dugout at the conclusion of batting practice Tuesday, the Reds outfielder signed autographs for some fans on the left-field line at Fenway Park. When he finished, he continued on towards the dugout. There, a fan yelled out “Joc deserved it!”<\/p>\n
Pham stopped and signed an autograph for the fan.<\/p>\n
Days after Pham’s slap of Giants outfielder Joc Pederson over a fantasy football dispute, the incident – in which the nine-year veteran received a three-game suspension and an undisclosed fine – is still top of mind, now even drawing the best player in baseball into the controversy.<\/p>\n
To this point, Pederson and Pham have both shared their versions of the story, and have not really contradicted each other on the basic facts; it is the interpretation of the rules of the league and the extent of the perceived disrespect shown by Pederson towards Pham that seem to be in contention. Still, Pham felt that his side of the dispute has not been fully aired.<\/p>\n
\u201cJoc gave out half the story, I don’t like that,\u201d Pham said shortly before the Reds’ Tuesday game at Fenway Park.<\/p>\n
But Pham added that regardless of how the situation has unfolded, the fantasy league’s commissioner could’ve put a stop to everything, early on, shifting part of the blame to the biggest-named commissioner in all of sports, fantasy or otherwise: Mike Trout .<\/p>\n
\u201cTrout did a terrible job, man,\u201d Pham said, with the hint of a smile. \u201cTrout’s the worst commissioner in fantasy sports. Because he allowed a lot of shit to go on and he could’ve solved it all. “<\/p>\n
Pham did appear somewhat sympathetic to Trout, however, recognizing at least that he didn’t want the job in the first place.<\/p>\n
\u201cNobody wanted to be commissioner, I didn’t want to be the fucking commissioner. I’ve got other shit to do. He didn’t want to do it; we put it on him. It was kind of our fault too, because we made him commissioner, \u201dPham said.<\/p>\n
Trout declined to comment on being commissioner of the league to The Athletic <\/em>Tuesday afternoon, before Pham’s statements about his role.<\/p>\n Part of the reason the incident resonated over the weekend despite the often short-attention span of public discourse was the incredibly in-depth arguments put forth by Pederson in defending his roster moves and use of the league’s injured list. According to Pederson, Pham accused Pederson of cheating because he was “stashing players on my bench.” Pederson said he looked up the rules the league used and believed he was in the right, and that Pham was doing the same thing with a player on his own team, 49ers running back Jeff Wilson Jr. Disagreements ensued on a group text for the league , which, sources said, includes MLB players from several teams including Manny Machado, Eric Hosmer and Mike Moustakas, and had an initial buy-in of $ 10,000.<\/p>\n Joc shares details of what happened in his fantasy football league that started his altercation with Tommy Pham today pic.twitter.com\/d9NBTwPVoG<\/a><\/p>\n\n