61 Facts About Joey Votto

Joseph Daniel Votto was born on September 10,1983 and is a Canadian-American professional baseball first baseman for the Cincinnati Reds of Major League Baseball.

Joey Votto is the first Canadian MLB player since Larry Walker to hit 300 home runs and have 1,000 career runs batted in.

Joey Votto is a six-time MLB All-Star, a seven-time Tip O'Neill Award winner, and two-time Lou Marsh Trophy winner as Canada's athlete of the year.

Joey Votto was born to Wendy and Joseph Joey Votto in Toronto, Ontario, and grew up in the city's Borough of Etobicoke.

Joey Votto's father was a chef and a baseball fan who died at age 52 in 2008.

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Joey Votto enrolled in high school at Richview Collegiate Institute in 1997.

Joey Votto was promoted to the Potomac Cannons of the Class A-Advanced Carolina League and hit five more home runs in 20 games to end the season with 19 round-trippers.

Joey Votto rebounded in 2006 with the best season of his minor league career.

Joey Votto led the Southern League in batting average and total bases and was third in home runs and runs batted in.

Joey Votto was selected to play in the 2006 All-Star Futures Game on the World Team.

Joey Votto was named to both the Mid-Season and Post-Season Southern League All-Star teams, and was voted a minor league all-star by Baseball America.

Joey Votto culminated his season by winning the Southern League Most Valuable Player Award.

Joey Votto ended the season going 2-for-4 with a home run and five RBI in the Cincinnati Reds' final game of the 2007 season.

Joey Votto drove in a career-high five runs against the Cubs two games later.

Joey Votto hit his first career pinch-hit home run against Cleveland's Cliff Lee, who would go on to win the AL Cy Young Award.

Joey Votto finished second in National League Rookie of the Year voting to the Chicago Cubs' Geovany Soto.

Joey Votto broke the Reds' record for the most runs batted in by a rookie in a season.

Joey Votto played for Canada in the 2009 World Baseball Classic.

Joey Votto began the 2009 season as the outright starter at first base.

Joey Votto had previously missed time because of dizziness related to an inner ear infection.

Joey Votto started the 2010 season by going 3-for-5 with a home run and a run batted in.

Joey Votto was not initially voted to the 2010 All-Star game in Anaheim, California, but he made the roster via online fan voting through the National League's Final Vote.

Joey Votto drove in the tie-breaking run with a single off Giants pitcher Barry Zito.

Joey Votto made the cover of Sports Illustrated on the August 30,2010 edition.

Joey Votto won the 2010 Hank Aaron Award in the National League.

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Joey Votto was announced as the 2010 NL MVP, coming within one vote of winning unanimously as Albert Pujols received the other first-place vote.

Joey Votto was only the third Canadian to win the MVP award, after Larry Walker and Justin Morneau.

Joey Votto became the first Reds player to win the National League MVP since Barry Larkin won it in 1995.

Joey Votto homered in the Reds' first game of the 2011 season—a solo homer off Kameron Loe of the Brewers.

Joey Votto recorded his first four-hit game of the season against the Arizona Diamondbacks and raised his average to.

Joey Votto began the season by reaching base in 27 consecutive games dating back to the previous season.

Joey Votto drove in five runs, his most in a game during the season.

On July 3, Joey Votto was voted in by the players for the 2011 All-Star Game as a reserve.

On July 1, Joey Votto was selected by the fans as a National League team starter in the 2012 MLB All-Star Game.

Joey Votto left the next day before the bottom of the fifth inning and missed the next two games because of inflammation in his knee.

Joey Votto was second in RISP average and third in slugging percentage.

Joey Votto finished the season having played in 111 games—the fewest he had played in a season since becoming the Reds' starting first basemen in 2008.

Joey Votto received more votes than Joe Mauer, Jose Bautista, Derek Jeter, Andrew McCutchen, and Matt Kemp.

Joey Votto played for Team Canada in the 2013 World Baseball Classic.

On May 21,2014, Joey Votto was placed on the 15-day disabled list with a strained left quadriceps.

On May 6,2015, Joey Votto was ejected following a strikeout where he threw his helmet down in frustration.

Joey Votto later received a one-game suspension, which he served when the Reds played the Chicago White Sox.

On October 2, Joey Votto tied a Reds record set by Pete Rose in 1978 when he got on base for his 48th straight game.

Joey Votto finished third in the National League MVP voting behind Bryce Harper and Paul Goldschmidt.

Joey Votto hit 29 home runs, second only to his 2010 MVP season.

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Joey Votto became the 10th player in Major League history to lead his league in on-base percentage at least 5 times; the only players who had done it more years were Barry Bonds and Hall of Famers Ted Williams, Babe Ruth, Rogers Hornsby, Ty Cobb, Wade Boggs, and Stan Musial.

Joey Votto was known for his promise to buy teammate Zack Cozart a donkey for making the 2017 All-Star Game.

Joey Votto upheld his end of the deal, buying Cozart a donkey shortly afterward.

Late in the year, Joey Votto had a streak of consecutive games reaching base multiple times, which spanned 20 games and was the second longest in MLB history behind Ted Williams' 1948 record of 21.

Joey Votto became just the first Reds player since Pete Rose in 1975 to start all 162 regular season games in a season and just the fourth player in franchise history to do so.

End-of-season awards for Joey Votto included selection as first baseman on Baseball America's All-MLB Team and his second Lou Marsh Trophy.

Joey Votto finished second in the National League MVP voting, narrowly losing out to Giancarlo Stanton by two votes in the fourth-closest vote in MLB history.

Joey Votto needed to be restrained by the Reds' coaching staff during the argument, and later received a two-game suspension and an undisclosed fine for his conduct.

Joey Votto is one of five Reds players to have driven in 1,000 runs in a professional career.

The streak ended the next night when he failed to hit a home run, falling one short of tying the league record for most consecutive games with a home run, though Joey Votto became the oldest player to hit nine home runs in seven games.

Joey Votto was named NL Player of the Month for the month of July 2021.

Joey Votto led the NL in bases on balls with 110 in 2011; despite missing 51 games in 2012, he led the NL in that category.

Joey Votto led the league in assists for first basemen in 2008, a feat he repeated in consecutive seasons in 2011 and 2012.

Joey Votto finished fifth in 2009 with 101 assists and second in 2010 with 128 assists.

Joey Votto has three brothers: Tyler, and twin brothers named Ryan and Paul.

Joey Votto had a mastiff-golden retriever mix named "Maris", who was named after former baseball player Roger Maris; the dog died in 2020.