вЂњThen when he gets on the field, you know his tendencies, what he can and canвЂ™t do well, and maybe you can make up for that. вЂњWhen you learn about a player off the field, you respect what he has been through,вЂќ Farmer said. The end result? The Reds play without Pham for three games because the player canвЂ™t control himself emotionally over something that had nothing to do with his job between the white lines then misses an additional game with вЂњinjury.вЂќД¬harlie Goldsmith of the Cincinnati Enquirer wrote an article titled вЂњHow intangibles helped the Cincinnati Reds turn a corner this season.вЂќ In it, Kyle Farmer was quoted: It wasnвЂ™t about pitches thrown up-and-in or trotting around the bases in too much of a laggardly, unmannerly fashion. It wasnвЂ™t about bat flips and disrespect. It had nothing to do with events on the field. вЂњThe SlapвЂќ was another childish playground confrontation that ballplayers are famous for, with a twist. They channel their inner Hamlet, searching their souls for so much as a morsel of perceived disrespect, the smallest scrap of disparagement in their opponentвЂ™s behavior to fuel the puffery of their ambitions. I got to get mine right now.вЂќДЄthletes are famous for wearing the petty on their sleeves. At the end of the day baseball is going to move on without me. вЂњIвЂ™m playing to get some numbers, I donвЂ™t care about anything else,вЂќ Pham said. Just like you donвЂ™t have to be Carl Sagan to find the moon at night, you didnвЂ™t have to be Nostradamus to surmise that maybe Pham wasnвЂ™t going to be the best teammate. Which is why one has to wonder if Tommy Pham has outlived his usefulness in Cincinnati. Every manager the Reds have hired the past few years has valued a tight knit clubhouse the way Ron Washington loved to bunt.

This is not the first time the organization has put its finger on the scale in favor of clubhouse bonhomie when deciding who plays and who sits. вЂњHeвЂ™s a big part of our team, and he makes us better in ways you canвЂ™t quantify,вЂќ manager David Bell said. вЂњEven when things arenвЂ™t going well for him, he finds a way to make it good for everyone else around him.вЂќ India said it simply: вЂњHeвЂ™s the heart and soul of this team.вЂќ вЂњWeвЂ™ve been forced a little bit to stay together, and Farm is a huge part of that,вЂќ Reds manager David Bell said. FarmerвЂ™s reputation of being a clubhouse leader-Scott Rolen-lite, if you will-has been repeated in quote after quote, story after story. When David Bell declared Kyle Farmer the starting shortstop before the season began, insisting that JosГ© Barrero was going to have to вЂњforce the issueвЂќ and take the job away from Farmer, everyone knew what this was about.

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