Recalling his 17-year tenure with the Cincinnati Reds, Joey Votto declared he would no longer be willing to wait around in free agency to return shopping carts.AMEST 10:03 AM SAM CONNONFEB 28, 2024

This winter, veteran first baseman Joey Votto of the Cincinnati Reds entered free agency for the first time in his career, but it doesn’t seem like his phone is ringing off the hook.

The forty-year-old slugger has taken to threatening people on his Instagram feed because things have become so bad. He went so far as to threaten to turn into a threat to society on Tuesday if he is not signed.

Votto declared, “I’m tired of this.” “I refuse to put my shopping carts away if I am not signed.”

In the second segment of the film, Votto put his money where his mouth was, idly pushing a shopping cart in the direction of the parking lot’s return area.

Votto remarked, “You just want to get them close to the hole.” Carts and golf balls are similar in many ways.

Votto has established a long-standing reputation as one of baseball’s most famous sardonic humorists, and it doesn’t appear that this offseason has altered. Votto recounted an incident in which he told Joe Mauer, a Minnesota Twins catcher who is five months older than him, that he looked up to him as a child. Mauer was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in January.

Votto amassed 2,135 hits, 356 home runs, 1,144 RBI, and a 64.4 WAR from the time he made his big league debut in 2007 until the 2023 campaign. Over his career, the former NL MVP and six-time All-Star bats.294 average.

Though there have been rumors this offseason that several teams are interested in acquiring Votto, it is unclear if he will get the opportunity to increase those totals.

Votto was linked to the Milwaukee Brewers, Los Angeles Angels, and Toronto Blue Jays at one point this winter. It’s even possible that he’ll return to the Reds, albeit not as a player.

After playing in 65 games, Votto hit.202 with 14 home runs, 38 RBI, a.747 OPS, and a -0.1 WAR, wrapping up the last season of his 10-year, $225 million contract with Cincinnati.