All-Time First Basemen and Reds current one Joey Votto

On Thursday over at Fangraphs, Craig Edwards put the digital pen to the digital paper for an article titled From Votto to Pujols to Chance: The Greatest Decades at First Base. Edwards has sort of been running a series in a similar fashion to this one where he looks at how certain players stack up, historically, in 10-year increments of their career to the best players ever.

At the start of the article, Edwards notes that it’s not so much the power that makes Joey Votto stand out – he’s only had two 30+ homer seasons in his career – but it’s his high average and walk rate that separate him from his peers. Starting with the year 2010 and moving forward, each of those years marking the end of a…