Joseph Daniel Votto

damn, joey votto gives a good interview. he says a lot of insightful things, but also things like "The biggest moment in my life is the Toronto Blue Jays winning back-to-back World Series." which is really interesting but also kind of sad! also, re:

[I hope that with a little bit of distance… I'm speaking out of turn here, I hope that eventually it comes full circle and he gets to go back to St. Louis and embraced appropriately and he gets to be a part of that sort of family that they have. I know it was a very difficult "break up," but I think it's better for the game and, more importantly, better for St. Louis because of how important the Cardinals are to that city and how really, Albert's probably the best player -- him and Stan (Musial) are the best two players that ever played (there).

please don't let this happen. or if it does, make it a july deadline trade and august retirement ceremony

I'd root for the Yankees to win the world series if he was in their lineup.

let's not get crazy here

We Canadian baseball fans have the heroes we get.

With the 3-5 game last night against the Rockies, Mr. Vottomatic has now passed the .300 mark this season and is up to .306 for the first time. Votto seems to take about 5 weeks to get going the past few years.

Freeland pitched him well and Votto got one hit the opposite way right off his hands. JV was only 1-13 against Mike Dunn coming into the game and he hit another chip shot single the other way with Dunn busting him in on his hands. Tony Gwynn and Pete Rose would have been proud, both singles looked like something out of their book.

Today in Joey Votto being the best: A montage of Votto faking out Adam Duvall every time Votto scores and Duvall tries to high five him. (Documented by @EWPod listener Noah Stafford (@jondowd51.)https://t.co/HW5EE51Ip7

— Ben Lindbergh (@BenLindbergh) July 13, 2018

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<3

liked this recent article
https://theathletic.com/404282/2018/06/22/im-not-ok-with-fine-joey-votto-on-his-power-decline-line-drive-rate-and-aging/

Votto kind of reminds me of Andrew WK.

#Reds Joey Votto has 6,563 career plate appearances.

He has never popped out to the catcher, pitcher, or first basemen.

— Ryan M. Spaeder (@theaceofspaeder) July 20, 2018

That’s just fucking weird

think i popped up to all three in my softball game last night.

that is wrong, joey votto. you can't do that.

wow that’s an absurd stat

Feel like it's not that he doesn't pop-up to the infield moreso that he just doesn't hit pop-ups:

This could be my favorite stat, ever...
Joey Votto pop ups by year:
2010 - 0
2011 - 1
2012 - 1
2013 - 1
2014 - 1
2015 - 2
2016 - 0
2017 - 1
2018 - 0
Since 2010, Votto has popped it up 7 times. With the same amount of PA, the MLB average player would have popped it up 127 times.

— Jeremy Frank (@MLBRandomStats) July 20, 2018

that is insane

by definition, popups are infield popups, but yeah he's famous for avoiding them

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“Everybody on? Good, great, grand, wonderful. No yelling on the bus!” – Joey Votto pic.twitter.com/hEWRv1wB2P

— MLB (@MLB) July 25, 2018

Jesus did that ever make me lol

This is Kyle. Joey liked his "Votto for President" shirt so much that he brokered a trade.

Only one problem: Joey Votto can't run for president. So he signed it, "More like Prime Minister!"

Never, ever, ever change. pic.twitter.com/SQsvhVLjqz

— Cincinnati Reds (@Reds) September 3, 2018

this was in pittsburgh, fwiw

The evolution of Joey Votto. #tbt pic.twitter.com/iU81PCv4gr

— Cincinnati Reds (@Reds) November 8, 2018

just watched the 2009 star trek for the first time and i was all like joey votto is a romulan?

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hahaha

Toying with an insect much like he does with pitchers.

Quote of the day

“It's a great example. The other reason I didn't want to make a big deal out of it is because he does it all the time. That's who he is. I don't need to bring a lot of attention to it, but it is worth complimenting because that's just nice. There's only a few people who can set that strong of an example when everyone's going to be watching. He took advantage of it.” – Bell on Joey Votto sprinting to second base on a pop-up, which dropped on an error, during a “B” game Thursday.
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Votto was probably sprinting as he was pi$$ed that he popped up to an infielder.

this shirt

we don't deserve Joey Votto pic.twitter.com/7AKZxO9qa1

— Sr VP of Trivia (@RedsGM) March 27, 2019

lol

Nice guy, Joey Votto. pic.twitter.com/BjEaFbEKge

— Cincinnati Reds (@Reds) April 10, 2019

hahahaha

Joey Votto popped up to the first baseman today for the first time in his Major League career.

— David Adler (@_dadler) April 17, 2019

yeesh, twice now this year including spring training

that is crazy

first he hits an infield pop-up, then he slashes .208/.323/.340 through 186 PAs

wtf is up with joey votto

If you believe the deep dive line, Votto's hitting the ball hard as heck right at people with swinging and missing a bit more.

Votto's kinda sucked for April and May for most of the last 2-3 years, albeit he was starting to pull out by now.

Cross fingers...

i'm sorry but we mustn't use 'slashes' in such a fashion. 'hits' or 'bats' will do

i feel certain joey votto would agree with this, my crusade

I will try not to...but I can’t make promises. In the heat of the moment, it could happen again

the strikeouts are really what’s worrying me. maybe he’s taking a different approach, and like earl says he always starts slow. so I’m hoping this isn’t just a big fall-off

Votto, though, is a known talker, and here’s how widely the conversations can vary: Dixon says he heard a story from a friend on the Pirates. Before a series with the Reds, the Pirates lineup got together and came up with a list of topics. Each player had to think of something “totally random,” and if they reached first base, it was their job to bring up the topic with Votto. Stuff that could range from comedy, to space travel, to politics, whatever. Then Pirates players would come back to the dugout and report what they learned.

“They would get some interesting answers from him,” Dixon said.

;_;

t-shirt prophetic

he’s just bad now and it’s sad

i know it's a "counting stat" but he has 26(!) RBI in 92(!!) games

He'll find a way.

Joey Votto has switched his at-bat song from Miley Cyrus' "Party in the USA" to Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe."

He's come back a bit--enough that his line this year won't be quite the eyesore of two months ago (he's about even with his injury-shortened 2014)--with another month to keep climbing. (Or to slip back into eyesore territory.)

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A link to the whole piece:

http://theathletic.com/1525820/2020/01/15/qa-joey-votto-on-25-years-of-raptors-fandom-whether-he-can-still-dunk-the-greatest-raptor-debate-and-more/

I've got an Athletic subscription as part of Posnanski's site...you need one, I think.

god I love him

The level of concern is not universal among players. Reds first baseman Joey Votto pronounced himself indifferent to any looming changes.

“I don’t care,” Votto said. “I just want the games to be faster. Most restaurants close around 9 p.m. or 10 p.m. It’s hard to get a reservation and make it if you’re playing a three-and-a-half-hour game.”

Asked if cutting down on in-game video might aid that endeavor, Votto shrugged.

“Oh, I have no idea. I guess you didn’t ask about that. You were asking about a policy change. And the only thing I care about is that the games start getting faster. Do anything they want. I don’t care. They can make it a seven-inning game.”