For this week’s question of the week we decided to ask what it was that some of the writers were looking forward to following during September with the Cincinnati Reds.
Question: With the Reds essentially out of the playoff chase, is there a statistical chase from a player that you are going to be rooting for in the final month of the season?
Mary Beth Ellis: With all eyes on Aristides Aquino, I’m gonna sit back here in my strappy 80s lawn chair and root for Joey Votto to go about banging. His recent injury must have spooked either him or the trainers to last so long, and we’re now at the point in the season in which the beer has gone flat, the playoffs are the scattered dust of the baselines in the middle of the fifth, and football has intruded.