Why you can't blame the Blue Jays for not calling up Joey Votto
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There was a lot of chatter that the Blue Jays were going to call up Joey Votto to cap of his career with his hometown team, but after a stint on the IL and lack of production in the minors, he decided to retire.
You can blame the Blue Jays front office for many things. The way Joey Votto's career ended isn't one of them
It is true that the the Blue Jays have made a lot of bad decisions this season but you can't blame them for how they handled the Joey Votto situation. Fans were upset they didn't offer a gesture to the future hall of famer. The reality was, that Votto didn't not sign with the team for fun or for a hand out, he sincerely wanted to make the team and contribute, but it didn't go as planned. Once Votto realized himself that he did not have what it took to compete at the major league he hung up the cleats.
«I did the very best I could on my rehab,» said Votto, who ranks second all-time among Canadians in hits, home runs and RBIs. «I did the best I could in my game competition in Dunedin, Buffalo. No griping, no complaining, I was really proud of that. But I just was not good enough, and that's the end of it.»
Votto made a statement on Instagram addressing the situation.
«I'm really saddened that I wasn't able to make it happen, that I wasn't able to arrive and perform, at the Rogers Centre in a Blue Jays uniform representing the city that I grew up in, the country that I grew up in and my people,» said Votto, who spent his entire 17-year career with the Cincinnati Reds.
«But this isn't my organization. So how can I show up and make it my day, my moment? Here's an at-bat, here's a game, here's a stretch of time. To me, it's disrespectful to the game. I also think it's disrespectful to the paying fans that want to see high-end performance, and I would have given them an awful performance.»
«But this isn't my organization. So how can I show up and make it my day, my moment? Here's an at-bat, here's a game, here's a stretch of time. To me, it's disrespectful to the game. I also think it's disrespectful to the paying fans that want to see high-end performance, and I would have given them an awful performance.»
At the end of the day, he just did not have what it took at his age to be an elite MLB ball player anymore, but do you still think that the Blue Jays should have given him at least one game against the Cincinnati Reds to cap off his career?
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23 AOUT | 270 ANSWERS Why you can't blame the Blue Jays for not calling up Joey Votto Do you think that the Blue Jays should have given him at least one game against the Cincinnati Reds to cap off his career? | ||
| Yes | 186 | 68.9 % |
| No | 84 | 31.1 % |
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