Jayson Stark of The Athletic wrote a piece on Tuesday where he handed out the 2010’s All-Decade Awards. Among those was naming the five best players of the 2010’s. Prepare to be shocked….. but Mike Trout was named the top player of the decade. The player that was second on that list, though, was Cincinnati Reds 1st baseman Joey Votto.
The stat of note from the article on Votto is an awesome one. Joey Votto walked 1046 times from 2010-2019. Only Carlos Santana was within 200 walks of that number for the decade. Only four other players were within 400 walks of that number.