Major League Baseball has released the first round of updates for All-Star voting for this year’s MLB All-Star Game, which will be taking place in Philadelphia this season. Assuming things remain as they are, the locals will get an opportunity to boo three players in particular once the introductions are made, as the Braves currently have three players who are leading the voting in their respective positions for the National League team.
Ronald Acuña Jr., Ozzie Albies and Drake Baldwin are each leading
their positions in All-Star votes at the moment. Here’s more from MLB’s press release on the voting results so far:
The Atlanta Braves, who own the best record in MLB at 46-25, have three players among the NL leaders. Reigning NL Jackie Robinson Rookie of the Year Drake Baldwin, seeking his first All-Star assignment, ranks second among all NL players and is leading NL catchers with 972,813 votes…
Baldwin is joined by second baseman Ozzie Albies and outfielder Ronald Acuña Jr. of the Braves. Albies (517,147), who is bidding for his fourth All-Star selection and first fan-elected starting assignment, is trailed by a pair of potential first-time All-Stars in Philadelphia’s Bryson Stott (399,729) and Brice Turang of the Milwaukee Brewers (373,656). Albies would become Atlanta’s first second baseman to win a fan election since Dan Uggla in 2012…
Acuña Jr. (693,472) ranks second among NL outfielder behind positional leader Andy Pages of the Dodgers (800,496). The duo is joined by Philadelphia’s Brandon Marsh (668,191), while Atlanta’s Michael Harris II (635,473), two-time All-Star Teoscar Hernández of the Dodgers (507,625) and Jordan Walker of the St. Louis Cardinals (437,071) are currently in position to advance to Phase 2…
Dodgers teammates Freddie Freeman and Max Muncy are currently leading at the corner infield positions, joining Ohtani and Pages among Los Angeles positional leaders. The nine-time All-Star Freeman (870,606) is narrowly edging out three-time All-Star Matt Olson of the Braves (802,848) while eight-time All-Star Bryce Harper of the Phillies (651,792) ranks third. Freeman, who has won five of the last seven fan elections, is aiming for his sixth fan-elected start, while Olson seeks his first and Harper his eighth.
So as you can see, while Acuña, Albies and Baldwin are currently leading, both Michael Harris II and Matt Olson are at least primed to make things interesting in their respective races to get voted into the All-Star Game. Additionally, Austin Riley is currently running in fourth place among NL Third Basemen, Ha-Seong Kim is running sixth in the Shortstop voting, Dominic Smith is third among all Designated Hitters and Mauricio Dubón is 11th among outfielders. The rest of those names are long shots to get in but hey, it’s still pretty cool to see this many Braves players even in the mix at this point.
The next round of updates will be released at this time next week, with Phase 1 of the balloting ending at 12:00 p.m. ET sharp on June 25, finalists being announced at 6:00 p.m ET that same day and Phase 2 beginning on June 29. If you’re trying to get your favorite Braves players to Philadelphia for the Midsummer Classic, you’d better get to voting (or keep voting).
