Joey Votto’s full name is Joseph Votto. He was born on 10th September 1983 in Toronto. He is a famous first baseman in Canada’s professional baseball team. Her mother’s name is Wendy and she was a manager at a restaurant. Her father’s name is Joseph Votto and he was a chef. He spent his childhood in Etobicoke. His father has always been a fan of baseball. His father died at the age of 52 years. He had poster of Ted Williams on his room’s wall. He went to Richview Collegiate Institute for his high school education in the year 1997. He used to play basketball and hockey. After high school, he signed National Letter of Intent for Coastal Carolina Chanticleers. He has 3 siblings: his brother Tyler and his twin brothers Ryan and Paul.
He made his presence felt in 3rd professional season of Reds in the year 2004 where he hit 14 home runs and 26 doubles. His performance was not really good during season of 2005. He re-bounded in 2006 and gave his best performance. He was selected to play on World Team in Future Games. He played for Louisville Bats in the season of 2007. His major debut league happened on 4th September 2007. He batted 12 runs and made 4 home runs. He made his first base of the career while plating against Brewers on 14th September. In the 2008 season beginning, he switched his places in field with Scott Hatteberg for first base. By early April, he started playing permanently from first base. He made 3 home runs on 7th May 2008 against Chicago Clubs.He broke the record of batting the highest number of runs by a rookie in the season of 2008. He was part of the Canada team in World Baseball Classic in the year 2009. During his game with the United States, he hit four times out of five times and one of them was home run. He was the National League Player for the game during 21st to 27th September 2009 week. In the season of 2010, he started by given 3 out of 5 home runs. He got strained at a quadriceps in May 2014 and he got the same injury again in July. He is known as a clutch hitter. He shows great patience at plate and he is very well known for that. He has won MLB All-Star award 4 times and Tip O’Neill Award 5 times. He won the MVP Award for National League in the year 2010. He was the Canada’s athlete of the year and got Lou Marsh Trophy for the same.
He was noted in between for his weight loss. He has a great height of 1.91 m. He earns some handsome salary and has a whooping net worth of $110 million. He has been with his girlfriend Jeanne Paulus for 5 years. It is believed that in future she will only be his wife. He has very lovable followers on twitter. He has an adopted dog and he has named him “Maris”.
| Birth Date: | 10 Sep, 1983 |
| Age: | 36 yrs |
| Occupations: | Baseball player |
| Citizenship: | Canada |
| Birth Place: | Toronto |
| Gender: | Male |
| Description: | Canadian baseball player |
| Net Worth 2021: | 110 million |
