Joey Votto Net Worth and Biography

Joey Votto is a Professional Canadian baseball player, with an estimated net worth of $110 Million. He is the first baseman for the Cincinnati Reds of Major League Baseball (MLB).  He is the first Canadian MLB player since Larry Walker to hit 300 home runs and have 1,000 career runs batted in (RBIs). Votto is also the second Canadian to have 2,000 hits.

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Biography

Joey Votto was born on September 10, 1983, to Wendy  Howell and Joseph Votto in Ontario, Canada. He grew up in the city’s Borough of Etobicoke. His mother is a sommelier and restaurant manager. His father was a chef and a baseball fan who died at age 52 in 2008. As a child, he adorned his wall with a Ted Williams poster.

Votto enrolled in high school at Richview Collegiate Institute in 1997. In high school, he also played basketball—playing point guard and once scoring 37 points in a game—and hockey. He played for the Etobicoke Rangers baseball program. After high school, Votto signed a National Letter of Intent to play college baseball for the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers.

Career

The Cincinnati Reds selected Votto out of high school in the second round with the 44th overall selection of the 2002 MLB draft. He spent five seasons in different minor leagues, playing for several Reds’ affiliate. He led the Southern League in batting average and total bases and was third in home runs and runs batted in (RBI).

Joey was selected to play in the 2006 All-Star Futures Game on the World Team. He 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. He culminated his season by winning the Southern League Most Valuable Player Award.

Joey made his MLB debut with the Reds in 2007. Through 2022, he had a career .300 batting average, 331 home runs, and 1 068 runs batted in. He led the NL in bases on balls with 110 in 2011 in 2012 despite missing 51 games. His career on-base percentage (OBP) is .416, he has exceeded the .400 OBP plateau in nine separate seasons. He led the NL in that category seven times (from 2010 to 2013, and 2016 to 2018).

Honours and Awards

Joey Votto is the first Canadian MLB player since Larry Walker to hit 300 home runs and have 1,000 career runs batted in (RBIs). Votto is also the second Canadian to have 2,000 hits. He 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. In 2010, he won the National League (NL) MVP Award and the NL Hank Aaron Award.

Votto led the league in assists (with 136) for first basemen in 2008, a feat he repeated in consecutive seasons in 2011 and 2012. He finished fifth in 2009 with 101 assists and second in 2010 with 128 assists. In 2011, he also led all NL first basemen in putouts (1,341), and he was third in fielding percentage (.996). That year, he won his first Gold Glove Award.

Joey Votto Net Worth

Joey Votto is one of the richest baseball player in the world, with an estimated net worth of $110 Million. He earns $22 million per year from baseball, plus he earns around $8 million a year from endorsements. He is believed to have earned $150 million in his 20-year career so far.

In 2011,  it was announced that the Reds and Votto had agreed to a three-year deal worth  $38-million. In 2012, Votto signed a 10-year, $225 million contract extension with the Reds, which runs through the 2024 season. The deal includes the two years that remained on his previous contract and pushes the total worth of the contract to 12 years and $251.5 million—the longest active deal in baseball at the time.

The deal (including the one-year team option), is the 13th-largest deal in MLB history. At the time, it was the longest guaranteed contract in MLB history. Also, the contract made Votto the highest paid athlete from Canada.