page_title: Tommy Pham
section_title: Minor leagues
hierarchical_section_title: Tommy Pham / Professional career / Minor leagues
caption_attribution_description: Tommy Pham
context_page_description: Thomas James Pham is an American professional baseball outfielder for the San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball. He previously played for the St. Louis Cardinals and Tampa Bay Rays. Pham bats and throws right-handed, stands 6 feet 1 inch tall and weighs 210 pounds.
  A native of Las Vegas, Nevada, the Cardinals selected Pham in the 16th round of the 2006 Major League Baseball draft. He overcame a number of injuries and vision impairments related to keratoconus to make his major league debut nine seasons after being drafted. In 2017, Pham became the first Cardinals batter since 1900 to record at least a .300 batting average, 20 home runs, 20 doubles and 20 stolen bases in the same season.
context_section_description: The start to Tommy Pham's professional baseball career has taken a number of detours due to injury.  He suffered a broken wrist in 2010.  In a 2011 game while attempting to deny a home run ball, he tore a ligament. He played 40 games and batted .294.  In early 2012, while diving for a baseball, Pham noticed a pop in his shoulder.  The opinion of team doctors was that it was not serious.  He continued play but it worsened, and later examination showed a torn labrum, costing him nearly all of the season.  After promotion to AAA Memphis Redbirds of the Pacific Coast League (PCL) in 2013, he tore his other labrum.  He returned to Springfield after rehabilitation and batted .301 in 45 games.  Pham played most of the 2014 season for Memphis, appearing in 104 games, and he batted .324 with a .395 on-base percentage (OBP), .491 slugging percentage (SLG), 63 runs scored, 16 doubles, six triples, 10 home runs (HR) and 44 runs batted in (RBI).
caption: Pham playing for the Memphis Redbirds.
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