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Joey Votto: Good Baseball Player

by Grant Brisbee

Joey Votto has already won an MVP, but he’s in the middle of his best season yet.

  • Grant Brisbee

    Grant Brisbee

    With Joey Votto Back, Is Cincinnati The Best Team In Baseball?

    CINCINNATI - Joey Votto of the Cincinnati Reds stands at the plate during a game against the Pittsburgh Pirates at Great American Ballpark. (Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images)
    CINCINNATI - Joey Votto of the Cincinnati Reds stands at the plate during a game against the Pittsburgh Pirates at Great American Ballpark. (Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images)
    CINCINNATI - Joey Votto of the Cincinnati Reds stands at the plate during a game against the Pittsburgh Pirates at Great American Ballpark. (Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images)
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    Votto’s returning, though, and he’s bringing his freaky, new, OBP-monster ways back to a Reds team with a commanding lead in the NL Central. This raises the obvious question: With Votto back, are the Reds the best team in the majors? They opened up the biggest divisional lead in baseball without Votto, so it’s at least reasonable to suggest that with him back, they’re something of a juggernaut.

    If I had to choose one, though, knowing what we know now, it’d be the Reds. They were excellent without Votto. They’ll be better with him. It’s easy to make too much about one player, but it’s pretty hard to make too much about Joey Votto. I was scrambling to get this written before the Reds game started on Tuesday, but I couldn’t get there. Votto already has a hit. That’s about right.

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  • Grant Brisbee

    Grant Brisbee

    Joey Votto: Still A Freak

    NEW YORK, NY - Joey Votto #19 of the Cincinnati Reds follows through on a seventh inning base hit against the New York Mets at Citi Field. (Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images)
    NEW YORK, NY - Joey Votto #19 of the Cincinnati Reds follows through on a seventh inning base hit against the New York Mets at Citi Field. (Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images)
    NEW YORK, NY - Joey Votto #19 of the Cincinnati Reds follows through on a seventh inning base hit against the New York Mets at Citi Field. (Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images)
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    These stories aren’t over. Joey Votto is still a freak. Might as well give it the StoryStream™ treatment because he’s just going to keep on being a freak.

    The first update: Joey Votto almost hit another infield pop-up. There was an alert sent out on the Joey Votto Infield-Pop-Up Emergency-Broadcast System here, but it was a false alarm.

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