Joey Votto

Joseph Daniel Votto

Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 220 lb.

Born: September 10, 1983 in Toronto, Ontario, CAN
High School: Richview Collegiate Institute (Toronto, ON)
Drafted by the Cincinnati Reds in the 2nd round of the 2002 amateur draft.
Signed June 5, 2002. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 4, 2007
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Standard Batting

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Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards
2007 23 CIN NL 24 89 84 11 27 7 0 4 17 1 0 5 15 .321 .360 .548 .907 127 46 0 0 0 0 1 3/7
2008 24 CIN NL 151 589 526 69 156 32 3 24 84 7 5 59 102 .297 .368 .506 .874 125 266 7 2 0 2 9 *3 RoY-2
2009 25 CIN NL 131 544 469 82 151 38 1 25 84 4 1 70 106 .322 .414 .567 .981 155 266 8 4 0 1 10 *3 MVP-22
3 Seasons 306 1222 1079 162 334 77 4 53 185 12 6 134 223 .310 .388 .536 .924 139 578 15 6 0 3 20
162 Game Avg. 162 647 571 86 177 41 2 28 98 6 3 71 118 .310 .388 .536 .924 139 306 8 3 0 2 11

Advanced Batting

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Year Age Tm Lg PA Outs RC RC/G AIR BAbip BA lgBA OBP lgOBP SLG lgSLG OPS lgOPS OPS+ OWn% BtRuns BtWins TotA SecA ISO PwrSpd
2007 23 CIN NL 89 57 17 8.0 115 .354 .321 .278 .360 .348 .548 .444 .907 .791 127 .698 3.1 0.3 .912 .298 .226 1.6
2008 24 CIN NL 589 384 99 6.9 110 .328 .297 .270 .368 .342 .506 .430 .874 .772 125 .652 19.2 1.8 .861 .325 .209 10.8
2009 25 CIN NL 544 328 113 9.2 108 .372 .322 .267 .414 .340 .567 .424 .981 .764 155 .768 40.0 3.8 1.049 .401 .245 6.9
3 Seasons 1222 769 229 8.0 109 .349 .310 .269 .388 .342 .536 .428 .924 .770 139 .712 62.3 5.9 .945 .356 .226 19.6
162 Game Avg. 647 407 121 8.0 109 .349 .310 .269 .388 .342 .536 .428 .924 .770 139 .712 33 3 .945 .356 .226 10

Ratio Batting*

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Year Age Tm Lg PA HR% SO% BB% XBH% X/H% SO/BB AB/SO AB/HR AB/RBI GB/FB GO/AO IP% LD% HR/FB IF/FB
2007 23 CIN NL 89 4.5% 16.9% 5.6% 12.4% 41% 3.00 5.6 21.0 4.9 0.38 0.45 73% 33% 8.3% 4%
2008 24 CIN NL 589 4.1% 17.3% 10.0% 10.0% 38% 1.73 5.2 21.9 6.3 0.78 1.15 68% 24% 10.6% 5%
2009 25 CIN NL 544 4.6% 19.5% 12.9% 11.8% 42% 1.51 4.4 18.8 5.6 0.64 1.08 62% 25% 11.8% 5%
3 Seasons 1222 4.3% 18.3% 11.0% 11.0% 40% 1.66 4.8 20.4 5.8 0.68 1.05 66% 25% 10.9% 5%
MLB Averages 2.7% 18.0% 8.9% 7.9% 34% 2.02 4.9 32.9 7.8 0.78 1.06 69% 19% 7.8% 13%

Baserunning & Misc. Stats*

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Year Age Tm Lg ROE XI RS% SBO SB CS SB% SB2 CS2 SB3 CS3 SBH CSH PO PCS OOB BT XBT% 1stS 1stS2 1stS3 1stD 1stD3 1stDH 2ndS 2ndS3 2ndSH
2007 23 CIN NL 1 0 25% 41 1 0 100% 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 38% 3 3 0 0 0 0 5 0 3
2008 24 CIN NL 5 0 23% 246 7 5 58% 7 5 0 0 0 0 2 0 6 4 42% 24 18 6 10 6 3 16 3 12
2009 25 CIN NL 7 0 29% 219 4 1 80% 4 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 7 15 49% 35 19 16 9 7 2 19 5 13
3 Seasons 13 0 26% 506 12 6 67% 12 5 0 0 0 1 4 1 15 19 46% 62 40 22 19 13 5 40 8 28
MLB Averages 31% 72% 39%

Situational Hitting*

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Hits Pinch Hitting Home Runs SH GIDP PrdOut BaseRunners Advances
Year Age Tm Lg PA Ptn% H Inf Bnt AB H HR RBI PHlev All GS GSo vRH vLH Hm Rd IP Att Suc % Opp DP % Opp Suc % BR BRS BRS% <2,3B Scr % 0,2B Adv % PAu
2007 23 CIN NL 89 70% 27 3 0 3 0 0 0 0.59 4 0 2 4 0 4 0 0 0 0 19 0 0% 10 2 20% 61 13 21% 6 2 33% 9 4 44% 0
2008 24 CIN NL 589 67% 156 9 1 9 3 1 3 0.97 24 0 17 16 8 14 10 0 0 0 112 7 6% 48 16 33% 342 61 18% 26 18 69% 33 13 39% 0
2009 25 CIN NL 544 71% 151 5 0 0 0 0 0 1.01 25 0 6 18 7 14 11 0 0 0 84 8 10% 35 16 46% 321 61 19% 25 15 60% 57 28 49% 0
3 Seasons 1222 69% 334 17 1 12 3 1 3 0.87 53 0 25 38 15 32 21 0 0 0 215 15 7% 93 34 37% 724 135 19% 57 35 61% 99 45 45% 0
MLB Averages 55% 72% 11% 32% 14% 51% 43%

Pitch Summary -- Batting*

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Year Age Tm Lg PA Pit Pit/PA Str Str% L/Str S/Str F/Str I/Str AS/Str I/Bll AS/Pit Con 1stS 30% 30c 30s 20% 20c 20s 31% 31c 31s L/SO PAu Pitu Stru
2007 23 CIN NL 89 339 3.81 211 62% 20% 21% 27% 33% 80% 3% 50% 74% 33% 7% 6 1 13% 12 2 10% 9 8 7% 0 0 0
2008 24 CIN NL 589 2176 3.69 1313 60% 21% 18% 28% 32% 79% 4% 47% 77% 38% 5% 29 2 16% 92 51 10% 59 31 24% 0 0 0
2009 25 CIN NL 544 2224 4.09 1293 58% 21% 20% 31% 28% 79% 4% 46% 75% 38% 7% 37 5 18% 99 49 12% 63 30 26% 0 0 0
3 Seasons 1222 4739 3.88 2817 59% 21% 19% 29% 30% 79% 4% 47% 76% 38% 6% 72 8 17% 203 102 11% 131 69 24% 0 0 0
MLB Averages 3.83 62% 28% 15% 27% 30% 72% 2% 45% 80% 26% 5% 15% 9% 25%

Cumulative Batting

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Year Age G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB
2007 23 24 89 84 11 27 7 0 4 17 1 0 5 15 .321 .360 .548 .907 127 46 0 0 0 0 1
2008 24 175 678 610 80 183 39 3 28 101 8 5 64 117 .300 .367 .511 .879 126 312 7 2 0 2 10
2009 25 306 1222 1079 162 334 77 4 53 185 12 6 134 223 .310 .388 .536 .924 139 578 15 6 0 3 20

Neutralized Batting

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All seasons are converted to 162-game seasons &
average team scoring of 716 total runs (4.42 R/G) How this works
Year Age G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS RC Gact
2007 23 24 87 82 10 25 6 0 4 15 1 5 15 .305 .345 .524 .869 15 24
2008 24 151 583 522 66 152 31 3 23 80 7 57 102 .291 .362 .494 .856 94 151
2009 25 131 543 468 78 150 38 1 25 80 4 70 106 .321 .413 .566 .979 108 131
3 Seasons 306 1213 1072 154 327 75 4 52 175 12 132 223 .305 .383 .528 .911 217 306
162 Game Avg. 162 642 568 82 173 40 2 28 93 6 70 118 .305 .383 .528 .911 115 306

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1920 to 1973 are missing or have incomplete accounts, click link for year and team summary) for some players prior to 1974 and even complete seasons may not match the official totals due to errors in both the official totals and the play-by-play accounts.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank, Glossary

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
2009 NL (22, 1%)
0.01 Career Shares (1469th)

Batting Average s c a p y
2009 NL  .322 (5th)

On-Base% s c a p y
2009 NL  .414 (4th)

Slugging % s c a p y
2009 NL  .567 (5th)

On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y
2009 NL  .981 (3rd)

Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y
2009 NL  155 (4th)

Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y
2009 NL  40 (6th)

Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y
2009 NL  3.8 (6th)

Offensive Win % s c a p y
2009 NL  .768 (2nd)

                                         

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Gray InkBatting - 7 (1579), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 12 (1063), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 28 (361), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

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  7. Lance Berkman (931)
  8. Geoff Jenkins (928)
  9. Wally Berger (927)
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  2. Bill Skowron (965)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

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