Early in his Cincinnati Reds career, we all had the pleasure of being awed by the baseball miracle that is Joey Votto. And then The Injury happened. You remember it. I remember it. It sucked. In 2012, Joey Votto was on his way to one of the very best seasons in Reds history when he injured his knee. This was a year when he had a very real chance to break the doubles record and to have a 9+ WAR season.
I’ve already digressed, but it was necessary because after that we started to learn something about Votto.