Votto, former Reds star and NL MVP, retires at 40
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The Reds later responded on social media: “We love you too, Joey.”
Votto signed a minor league deal with his hometown team, the Toronto Blue Jays, on March 9. He homered off Philadelphia’s Zack Wheeler in his only spring training at-bat for Toronto on March 17. He stepped on a bat in the dugout later in that game and was sidelined for the next three months.
He had been playing at Triple-A Buffalo and went 6-for-42 with one homer and four RBIs in 15 games, striking out 22 times.
The Blue Jays were hosting the Reds on Wednesday in the finale of a three-game series in Toronto.
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.
