Baseball’s Canadians got game
So Canada has a new national sport, baseball — at least for a day or two. That’s because Toronto’s Joey Votto has been voted the National League’s Most Valuable Player by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. Votto, the Cincinnati Reds first baseman, was one vote short of unanimously crushing the great Albert Pujols of the St. Louis Cardinals who is a three-time MVP.
Votto is no flash in the pan when it comes to Canadian baseball players. He follows in the footsteps of other Canadian MVPs Larry Walker of the Colorado Rockies in 1997 and the Minnesota Twins’ Justin Morneau in 2006. There was a time in Canadian baseball when there was just the Chicago Cubs’ Ferguson Jenkins and the abyss. No longer.
But there’s more to Joey Votto than a big swing and good glove. Votto wasn’t a leader in the Triple Crown categories, though he topped the National League in on-base percentage and slugging. He also has charisma. He wasn’t initially voted to the National League all-star team this year in Anaheim but made it on an online vote. Votto garnered about half the 26 million votes cast.
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