Joey's got a beard! Alert Heather!
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-bi...4890--mlb.html
Here is part of the article's analysis of the move and its possible in-season impact.
Will this get a sticky?Votto's facial hair serves him well, in a Jeff Reardon-sort-of-way. And having a beard, as everyone knows, is worth four or five more home runs a season per 162 games played. It's too bad we'll never see him take this look to Great American Ball Park, even though the Reds dropped their strict no-facial-hair policy after 1999. It would attract too much attention to a guy who just likes to blend in.