Joey Votto

Joseph Daniel Votto (Votto-matic)

Position: First Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 225 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
Team: Reds 2007-2012
2012 Contract Status: Signed thru 2023, 13 yrs/$263M (11-23) & 24 team option (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 4.027, Free Agent: 2024 [*],
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All-Star

Standard Fielding

Adv Fielding w/ run summary

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rtot	Rdrs	Rtot/yr	Rdrs/yr	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	Awards
2007	CIN	NL	23	1B	17	15	15	137.0	118	107	11	0	15	1.000	-2	1	-18	9	7.75	6.94	.993	9.21	9.17
2007	CIN	NL	23	LF	6	6	5	51.0	15	14	0	1	0	.933	-2	-4	-38	-94	2.47	2.33	.984	1.99	1.98
2007	CIN	NL	23	OF	6	6	5	51.0	15	14	0	1	0	.933	-2	-4	-38	-94	2.47	2.33	.984	2.29	2.28
2008	CIN	NL	24	1B	144	138	128	1223.2	1197	1050	136	11	119	.991	8	7	8	7	8.72	8.24	.992	9.34	9.28	RoY-2
2009	CIN	NL	25	1B	130	128	117	1097.0	1071	960	101	10	108	.991	-2	-2	-3	-2	8.70	8.16	.993	9.29	9.21	MVP-22
2010	CIN	NL	26	1B	148	146	137	1283.0	1265	1132	128	5	101	.996	-7	3	-7	3	8.84	8.51	.993	9.23	9.13	AS,MVP-1
2011	CIN	NL	27	1B	160	159	152	1427.2	1520	1341	173	6	127	.996	7	4	6	3	9.54	9.46	.994	9.33	9.31	AS,MVP-6,GG
2012	CIN	NL	28	1B	49	49	48	438.2	418	365	51	2	33	.995	2	5	5	14	8.53	8.49	.993	9.41	9.32
	6 Seasons			1B	648	635	597	5607.0	5589	4955	600	34	503	.994	6	18	1	3	8.92	8.57	.993	9.30	9.24
	1 Season			OF	6	6	5	51.0	15	14	0	1	0	.933	-2	-4	-38	-94	2.47	2.33	.984	2.29	2.28
	1 Season			LF	6	6	5	51.0	15	14	0	1	0	.933	-2	-4	-38	-94	2.47	2.33	.984	1.99	1.98
	6 Seasons			TOT	654	641	602	5658.0	5604	4969	600	35	503	.994	4	10	1	2	8.86	8.52	.993	9.24	9.18

Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.

View Complete Notes on Fielding Data

Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.

Pre-1948 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
From 1948 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1948 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1918 on.
Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1948 to 1973 and complete from then on.
Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1918) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1948 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
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Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzhm	Rtzrd	Rdp	Rof	Rdrs	Rdrs/yr	Rpm	Rdp	Rbnt	Rof
2007	CIN	NL	23	1B	-2	-18	-2	-1	-1	0		1	9	0		0
2007	CIN	NL	23	LF	-2	-38	-2	-1	-1		0	-4	-94	-3			0
2008	CIN	NL	24	1B	8	8	8	8	-1	1		7	7	13		-2
2009	CIN	NL	25	1B	-2	-3	-1	-2	1	-1		-2	-2	0	-1	0
2010	CIN	NL	26	1B	-7	-7	-7	-5	-2	0		3	3	-1	1	0
2011	CIN	NL	27	1B	7	6	8	8	-0	-1		4	3	8	-1	-1
2012	CIN	NL	28	1B	2	5	2	1	1	-0		5	14	3	0	0
	6 Seasons			1B	6	1	7	10	-3	-1		18	3	23	-1	-3
	1 Season			LF	-2	-38	-2	-1	-1		0	-4	-94	-3			0
	6 Seasons			TOT	4	1	5	9	-4	-1	0	10	2	20	-1	-3	0

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	1B	LF	OF	PH
2007	CIN	NL	23	24	21	24	22	17	6	6	3
2008	CIN	NL	24	151	138	151	144	144	0	0	9
2009	CIN	NL	25	131	128	131	130	130	0	0	2
2010	CIN	NL	26	150	146	150	149	149	0	0	3
2011	CIN	NL	27	161	159	161	160	160	0	0	2
2012	CIN	NL	28	50	49	50	49	49	0	0	1
	6 Seasons			667	641	667	654	649	6	6	20

Appearances table is calculated solely from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available from 1973 on. A combination of RetroSheet (starting with the 1918 season) and non-RetroSheet data is used for other seasons.

Advanced Fielding -- 1B*

											Putouts					Assists					Errors					Double Plays
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	PA	RHB%	BIP%	GBIP%	Fld	F2O%	FC	Tot	Cgt	Frc	Tag	3U	Tot	1B	2B	Hm	Rly	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	363	361	36	GB	GBs	LD	LDs	LDf	bFld	bF2O%
2007	CIN	NL	23	571	64%	76%	27%	29	93%	0	107	15	89	3	4	11	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	15	0	0	0	14	1	1	1	0	2	50%
2008	CIN	NL	24	5440	57%	74%	29%	327	92%	3	1050	83	941	25	90	136	103	29	3	4	11	0	6	5	8	119	7	4	3	112	14	6	2	4	27	85%
2009	CIN	NL	25	4716	54%	75%	30%	255	91%	2	960	69	874	16	71	101	72	21	3	3	10	0	7	3	8	108	2	1	1	101	4	7	4	3	14	79%
2010	CIN	NL	26	5449	59%	75%	31%	297	94%	7	1132	95	1013	21	64	128	95	16	4	3	5	1	2	2	4	101	2	6	0	97	8	4	3	1	17	94%
2011	CIN	NL	27	6087	60%	76%	32%	348	93%	3	1341	95	1223	22	75	173	127	25	4	5	6	0	5	1	6	126	0	4	1	115	5	10	3	7	22	82%
2012	CIN	NL	28	1846	51%	75%	29%	117	94%	2	365	33	326	6	31	51	33	10	3	2	2	1	0	1	1	33	1	2	0	31	3	2	0	2	6	67%
	6 Seasons			24109	57%	75%	30%	1373	93%	17	4955	390	4466	93	335	600	438	101	17	17	34	2	20	12	27	502	12	17	5	470	35	30	13	17	88	83%
	MLB Averages				57%	76%	31%		93%																											83%

Advanced Fielding -- LF*

				Errors					Assists					Single w/ Runner on 1st			Single w/ Runner on 2nd			Double w/ Runner on 1st			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd			Baserunning Totals
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	1B	2B	3B	Hm	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Held%	Adv	Kill	Kill%	Aother	PA	RHB%	BIP%	FBIP%	Fld	F2O%
2007	CIN	NL	23	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	2	0	0	4	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	9	5	55.6%	4	0	0.0%	0	228	62%	76%	42%	35	40%
	1 Season			1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	2	0	0	4	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	9	5	55.6%	4	0	0.0%	0	228	62%	76%	42%	35	40%
	MLB Averages																														63.7%			2.2%			57%	76%	39%		46%

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1918 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. Pre-1954 seasons have a substantial numbers of games missing play-by-play accounts and should be viewed as essentially incomplete.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

All-Star Games 2010 * 2011 *	Awards (yr lg award) 2010 NL Hank Aaron Award 2010 NL MVP	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 2009 NL (22, 1%) 2010 NL (1, 99%) 2011 NL (6, 30%) 1 MVP 1.30 Career Shares (171st)	Gold Gloves 2011 NL (1B)
Putouts† s c a p y 2011 NL 1,341 (1st) 2012 NL 365 (5th)	Def. Games as 1B s c a p y 2011 NL 160 (1st) 2012 NL 49 (1st) Active 648 (18th)	Putouts as 1B s c a p y 2011 NL 1,341 (1st) 2012 NL 365 (5th) Active 4,955 (18th)	Assists as 1B s c a p y 2008 NL 136 (1st) 2009 NL 101 (5th) 2010 NL 128 (2nd) 2011 NL 173 (1st) 2012 NL 51 (1st) Active 600 (11th)
Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y 2008 NL 11 (4th) 2009 NL 10 (4th) Active 34 (19th)	Total Zone Runs as 1B s c a p y 2008 NL 9 (5th) 2011 NL 7 (5th) Active 6 (22nd)	Range Factor/9Inn as 1B† s c a p y 2011 NL 9.54 (5th) Active 8.92 (21st)	Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y 2011 NL 9.46 (2nd) Active 8.57 (16th)
Fielding % as 1B s c a p y 2011 NL .996 (3rd) Active .994 (14th) Career .994 (47th)

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