A year ago if you had told me that Josh VanMeter and Aristides Aquino would be in the same starting lineup against the Atlanta Braves in August of 2019, I probably would have turned my head a little bit in confusion and stared at you for a few seconds before asking, “what?”
But that’s exactly how things are currently playing out for the Cincinnati Reds right now. A year ago Josh VanMeter was in Triple-A with the Louisville Bats. And while we now know that he was in the midst of a huge break out, on August 5th of 2018 he was hitting just .