Watching Joey Votto go to work in the batter’s box, it’s a thing of beauty. Some poor, unfortunate soul has been tasked with trying to retire the Cincinnati Reds 1B, yet we all know that’s just not going to happen. In all likelihood, Votto hasn’t just studied the pitch arsenal of said soul into memorization, he knows the kid’s high school, the methods that kid’s high school coach used to teach him him how to pitch, his middle name, the linguistic root of said middle name, what kind of car he drives, whether he’s a ‘let it get all the way down to empty before filling it up’ or ‘top it off when it reaches a quarter of a tank’ kind of guy, and whether the signature on his 1986 Topps Dan Quisenberry card is real or forged.
Joey Votto talks hitting in the most Joey Votto way possible
