Hoping Hunter Not A No Trade Contract

[*TheLeonardLeap*]

For the 1,682nd time you rant about Votto's contract... it was a good contract. You can't claim it's not hate when it's what you rant about seemingly every other post you make. When you give a guy a long term deal, you underpay in the early years and overpay in the later years.

It's not his fault that the Reds didn't put a team around him at all for years and had a manager that thought putting the two worst non-pitcher batters in the lineup should routinely bat 1-2 ahead of Votto for most of his career rather than people who actually get on base.

The first 8 years of his 10 year deal? He hit .290/.414/.501 with 30.4 WAR and 4 seasons where he got MVP votes, he was 41% above league average offensively, he had the 9th highest wRC+ of anyone who had 2k PA during that span.

It's going to be a sad day for you when Votto goes into the Hall of Fame in 6-10 years and a whole lot of Reds fans will celebrate by remembering their happy memories of watching a great batter play his career in a Reds uniform and you'll still be fuming over his contract thinking that's why the Reds didn't win more games rather than just being a poorly run team.