Aaron Decide and Shohei Ohtani, who’ve mixed to win 5 of the final eight Most Worthwhile Participant awards, are lapping the remainder of Main League Baseball within the first batch of All-Star Recreation balloting.
Decide, the New York Yankees’ slugger who leads the majors in batting common (.378), on-base share (.473) and slugging share (.756) and shares the lead in homers (26), leads all gamers with 1,568,527 votes from followers.
Ohtani, who has amassed a MLB-best 73 runs to go along with a .297 batting common, 25 homers and 11 steals, paces all Nationwide League gamers with 1,398,771 votes. The Los Angeles Dodgers’ designated hitter is scheduled to pitch tonight in opposition to the San Diego Padres — his first mound look since Aug. 23, 2023, when he was nonetheless with the Los Angeles Angels.
This yr’s All-Star Recreation balloting course of options two phases of fan voting. The present stage runs by way of Thursday, June 26. At that time, the highest two vote-getters at every place (together with six outfielders) in every league will interact in a run-off to find out which gamers will begin July 15 on the Atlanta Braves’ Truist Discipline.
Listed below are the highest American League vote-getters at every place:
Catcher: Seattle’s Cal Raleigh (1,043,168) and Toronto’s Alejandro Kirk (370,460); First base: New York’s Paul Goldschmidt (667,258) and Toronto’s Vladimir Guerrero Jr. (614,726); Second base: Detroit’s Gleyber Torres (535,079) and Baltimore’s Jackson Holliday (440,093); Shortstop: the Athletics’ Jacob Wilson (562,696) and Kansas Metropolis’s Bobby Witt Jr. (519,984); Third base: Cleveland’s Jose Ramirez (968,754) and Boston’s Alex Bregman (397,581).
The highest six American League outfielders are Decide, Detroit’s Riley Greene (675,070), Los Angeles’ Mike Trout (475,265), Cleveland’s Steven Kwan (457,882), Detroit’s Javier Baez (421,342) and New York’s Cody Bellinger (416,858). Baltimore’s Ryan O’Hearn (353,029) leads New York’s Ben Rice (232,331) within the designated hitter class.
Ohtani and his Dodgers teammates are well-represented among the many Nationwide League’s high vote-getters at every place:
Catcher: Los Angeles’ Will Smith (1,124,629) and Chicago’s Carson Kelly (408,081); First base: Los Angeles’ Freddie Freeman (1,136,389) and New York’s Pete Alonso (895,900). Second base: Arizona’s Ketel Marte (850,572) and Los Angeles’ Tommy Edman (510,451); Shortstop: New York’s Francisco Lindor (1,019,273) and Los Angeles’ Mookie Betts (597,188); Third base: San Diego’s Manny Machado (955,122) and Los Angeles’ Max Muncy (415,750).
The highest six Nationwide League outfielders are Chicago’s Pete Crow-Armstrong (1,126,119) and Kyle Tucker (704,740), Los Angeles’ Teoscar Hernandez (685,553), New York’s Juan Soto (625,618), Arizona’s Corbin Carroll (597,805) and Atlanta’s Ronald Acuna Jr. (596,363). When Rafael Devers (796,382) was traded from the Boston Purple Sox to the San Francisco Giants on Sunday, he bumped Chicago’s Seiya Suzuki (358,138) out of the second spot within the DH balloting.
