A Good Thing - The Baseball-Reference Batting Leader Boards. A good while back, through the foulest trenches scarring the vast, foreboding landscape of the rebuild, I remarked that the next good Reds’ lineup would no longer need Joey Votto to be that Joey Votto. He is being paid like a premiere hitter but he doesn’t have to hit like one for the whole thing to go. I take exception to the underlaying logic, but that aside, it holds.
Jesse Winker and Nick Castellanos have been hitting back-to-back in the lineup for most of the season and for most of the season they have been only challenged by each other (and Fernando!