Turns out Jessica Mendoza isn’t the only person annoyed with Mike Fiers for snitching.

Ex-Phillie Pedro Martinez went on the radio Tuesday and shared a viewpoint similar to the one that brought a lot of shit on Mendoza, explaining that he felt like Fiers should have addressed the Astros cheating scandal while playing for Houston and before he ended up in Detroit and Oakland.

Here’s part of what Martinez said on WEEI in Boston:

“If he was to do it when he was playing for the Houston Astros, I would say Mike Fiers has guts. But to go and do it after you leave the Houston Astros, because they don’t have you anymore, that doesn’t show me anything,” Martinez said. “I mean, you’re just a bad teammate.”

Martinez went on to explain how he believed Fiers should have handled the situation instead of violating what is perceived as a clubhouse code after leaving Houston. (The current A’s pitcher played for the Astros from 2015-17.)

“If you tell me that Mike Fiers is coming to my team and you already threw your team under the bus, the team that you used to play for … Now everybody knows you are going to have a whistle-blower in any other situation too,” the former Red Sox ace said. “Whatever happens in the clubhouse stays in the clubhouse and Fiers broke the rules. I agree with cleaning up the game. I agree that the fact that the Commissioner is taking a hard hand on this, but at the same time players should not be the one dropping the whistle-blower.”

Pedro is going with the “unwritten rules” take here, i.e. you don’t tattle on your teammates. Mendoza’s explanation, as she later clarified, was similarly about wanting Fiers to go through the proper channels and report the cheating up the chain of command instead of going to The Athletic with the story after leaving Houston.

Martinez also touched on that:

“If you have integrity you find ways to tell everybody in the clubhouse, ‘Hey, we might get in trouble for this. I don’t want to be part of this.’ You call your GM. You tell him. Or you call anybody you can or MLB or someone and say, ‘I don’t want to be part of this.’ Or you tell the team, ‘Get me out of here, I don’t want to be part of this.’ Then you show me something. But if you leave Houston and most likely you didn’t agree with Houston when you left and then you go and drop the entire team under the bus, I don’t trust you. I won’t trust you because we did have that rule.”

I can see the point he’s making.

Say you work at Waffle House, for instance, and you’re unhappy with the way the hash browns are being made. What’s your first move? Do you wait three years and then blow the hash brown whistle after taking a new job at Royal Farms? Or do you go to your manager and say, ‘hey, do you have a minute? I think what we’re doing with the has browns is wrong.’

Maybe that’s a dumb example, but you get the point; typically you try to go to the source first before trying the external route. Try to address the problem directly and solve it that way. Of course, the main reason people do blow the whistle is because they’re either afraid of retaliation and/or repercussions and don’t want to risk going through the appropriate channels because they don’t think their concerns will be taken seriously, or they’ll simply be swept under the rug.

Either way, I think the portion of players or ex-players who feel like Fiers went about this the wrong way is slightly larger than imagined. Most of them, I would assume, aren’t going to go public with an unpopular take, though it’s interesting to see Pedro describe the situation in this way.