June Reds game thread

[kevin]

(06-19-2022, 06:54 PM)fredtoast Wrote: 1.  No one is raving about how Votto is playing this year.

2.  He has zero value in trade.  We can't even dump payroll because we would have to pay his salary to get some other team to take him.

Then you must not get Reds TV of Jim Day and others who all they talk about is THE WONDERFUL JOEY VOTTO :  THE FACE OF THE REDS.  ...I mean, I get it.  The Reds pay Votto a ton, and so these Reds stooge announcers have to hype Votto every moment of every game to keep their Reds announcer jobs.  I get that part.  

If I was Reds owner, I would pay half of Votto's remaining contract if a team Votto agrees to would pay the other half.  I would not see it as millions lost, I would see it as millions saved.  I would pay half his contract from now to 2025 to go play for another team.  

The Reds hopefully learn and NEVER make another 10 year, high paid, No Trade contract to anybody ever again.  The Votto Contract really shackles The Reds and holds this team back, so I can not agree with Reds Announcers on how WONDERFUL Votto is.