Joc Pederson talked about his altercation with Tommy Pham, which was sparked by a disagreement in their fantasy football league. There is a time and a place for it.
Cincinnati Reds outfielder Tommy Pham said on Saturday that he agreed to a three-game suspension for hitting San Francisco Giants outfielder Joc Pederson in the cheek over a fantasy football dispute.
MLB said that he was fined and suspended for inappropriate conduct. The suspension was retroactive to Friday and will last through Sunday when the Reds play the Giants.
The Giants were warming up in the outfield on Friday when Pham hit Pederson. They had to be apart.
Pederson disrespected his teammates on the San Diego Padres, for whom he played last season, when he sent an old text to the fantasy league, according to Pham.
"I slapped Joc, I don't condone that," he told reporters. I had to address it.
It's... It was about my team. I didn't like that and I didn't like the fantasy. We had too much money on the line, so I look at it like a code. You are going to say something disrespectful with my money, there is a code to this.
On Friday, Pederson said he was accused of cheating for placing a player on injured reserve and replacing him with a free agent in a fantasy football league. Pederson said the player he put on IR had been ruled out for that week, which made it a legal move. He said that the same maneuver had been executed by his own team.
Pederson didn't know that he would confront him during the series in Cincinnati.
Pederson told reporters on Friday that it was a surprise. I was like, "Fantasy football", and he was like, "I don't know if you remember from last year."
In April, after Voit injured Reds catcher Tyler Stephenson with a hard, ugly slide into home, Pham challenged Voit to a fight.
The report was contributed to by the Associated Press.
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