The Votto Prognosis

The word is out that Joey Votto had a "6-minute procedure" to remove "floating cartilage" from his injured knee. He was on the road to recovery, but according to Tom Groeschen, experienced some soreness in sliding drills. The estimate is that this setback adds "7-10 days."

Converting those estimates to reality using a helpful algorithm that assumes everyone is delusional or lying, the procedure was at least 10 minutes and Votto will be out another two weeks. I hate to be negative, but it sounds like early September to me, especially given that 10 days