So 28-year-old Indians starter Fausto Carmona is actually 31-year-old Roberto Hernandez Heredia. The news is barely a day old, but it already feels much older than that. Maybe it only feels much older than that to me. Anyway.
Roberto Hernandez Heredia Reportedly Outed By Family Of Real Fausto Carmona
There’s a lot of mystery involved in how this sort of thing takes place. How a player assumes another age and another identity. Courtesy of Mark Schwab - and courtesy of Pedro Gomez - we get a new nugget:
ESPN’s Pedro Gomez reports Fake Fausto was paying hush money to the family of the real Fausto. They outed him when he wouldn’t up the $ paid
Well isn’t that a thing? Hush money! Legitimate scandal!
These fake names - at least most of the time, they’re not really fake names. According to Gomez, there is a real Fausto Carmona. It’s just that the Fausto Carmona we thought we knew wasn’t the real Fausto Carmona. Again, it’s reminiscent of what happened with Leo Nunez/Juan Carlos Oviedo:
Oviedo honored his late father’s wish when he turned himself into authorities earlier this month, confessing that he had assumed the name and age of a boyhood friend in order to improve his marketability as a young baseball prospect.
Carmona and Nunez didn’t make identities up. They assumed other identities, with permission. I’m not sure why ex-Carmona stopped paying his hush money, if that story is true, since he earns a high salary, but I suspect more details will continue to emerge.
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