At first, Cincinnati Reds first baseman Joey Votto didn’t remember that he had been in a similar stretch to what the league-worst 3-16 Reds are going through in 2022.
Just over five years ago, the Reds had the same record. At the time, the team had just fired manager Bryan Price as Billy Hamilton, Jose Peraza, Adam Duvall, Brandon Finnegan and the Reds’ core of the late 2010s struggled to click on the field. When Votto was reminded of the 2018 season and the Reds’ eventual 3-18 start that year, he was surprised.
“I’ve been through this?