Ja'Marr Chase helps Alex Bregman win Tommy Pham/Joc Pederson fantasy football league

The winner of the fantasy football league that caused a dispute between the Reds' Tommy Pham and the San Francisco Giants' Joc Pederson was the Houston Astros' Alex Bregman, league commissioner Mike Trout of the Angels said on ESPN's "Sunday Night Baseball." 

And Cincinnati Bengals receiver Ja'Marr Chase's efforts reportedly helped Bregman to the league title.

Trout was wearing a microphone during "Sunday Night Baseball" when he revealed that Bregman won the league. Last month, Pham slapped Pederson during batting practice when the Giants were at Great American Ball Park to face the Reds, and the Reds' outfielder said Trout "did a horrible job," calling him "the worst commissioner in fantasy sports."

"I didn't win," Trout said. "Alex Bregman (won). Now I told you that, you're not going to ask him questions about this league. It's obviously over."

ESPN color analyst Eduardo Perez, a former Red and the son of Big Red Machine great Tony, mentioned that Bregman would play on ESPN in one week.

"You can ask him then for sure," Trout added. "But he won it."

Houstonchronicle.com's Chandler Rome reported Monday that Chase and the Colts' Jonathan Taylor helped Bregman to the title.

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Pham said late last month - per The Enquirer's Bobby Nightengale - that Pederson didn't give the full story by showing reporters a group text message.

From Nightengale:

The altercation stemmed from their $10,000 fantasy football league – Pederson was accused of cheating, he said, when he put a player who was listed as out on his team’s injured reserve to add an additional player – and a group text where Pederson made fun of the Padres not making the playoffs.

Pederson said the swipe he took at the Padres was meant to be lighthearted and apologized if anyone took offense to it. It was a video with three weightlifters and team logos of the Giants, Los Angeles Dodgers and Padres above each of them. The weightlifter under the Padres logo was hit by the oversized kettlebell and fell over after throwing it in the air.  

“Joc gave out half the story too, man,” Pham said. “I don’t like that.”

Which part wasn’t the full story?

“He’s sent a few,” Pham said. “It’s more than one and I’ve got screenshots to prove it. He sent more than a few jokes aimed at me or the Padres. That was only one. There was about four or five. And we had rules to the IR. I know the ESPN app rules. We had our own individual rules.”

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