Who’s leading MLB All-Star voting?
Yahoo Sports senior MLB analysts Jordan Shusterman and Jake Mintz give an update on MLB All-Star Game voting so far. Hear the full conversation on the "Baseball Bar-B-Cast" podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify or wherever you listen.
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The All-Star rosters will be announced on Saturday night at 7:30 PM.
Jordan, can you hold my hand and take me through the National League?
First base, Freddie Freeman, a commanding lead over Matt Olson, 59 to 41.
Ozzie Albies, speaking of the Braves, he is well ahead of Bryson Stott.
It's very interesting to see like which ones the hometown guys ended up getting more support from versus the opposite.
So Ozzie Albies, he's cruising at second base.
Shortstop CJ Abrams, we were wondering if the Dodgers, even though Mookie Betts is obviously not having an All-Star season, if he would overtake CJ Abrams.
It does not look like that'll be the case.
CJ Abrams, a much deserved starter.
Max Muncy cruising over Alec Bohm as he should.
I think the outfield is what's most interesting here because the last update had Brandon Marsh at the top at 23%.
So we expect him to be a starter.
That's an awesome story.
That's well deserved.
Juan Soto second.
He's probably going to be the only Mets All-Star, I would imagine, and he deserves to be there as well.
But then a very close batch for that third spot.
Carson Benge got a solid hit.
Carson Benge, yeah, why isn't he on here?
But then a very close batch after that with Harris, Pahes, Acuna, Tayoska Hernandez.
You know, some injuries involved there.
We're going to talk about Michael Harris in a little bit for good, bad, ugly.
But that's going to be close.
So Marsh and Soto, though, we feel pretty good about.
Oh, and I forgot to mention Drake Baldwin at catcher is he's running away with it.
So let's move over to the American League where first base is hilarious as Vladimir Guerrero Jr. is beating Ben Rice by 10 percentage points, 55 to 45.
Vlad in the midst of the worst season of his life.
Shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. is smoking Andres Jimenez.
They think this is the widest gap for any vote as it should be.
Junior Caminero is going to be the starting third baseman.
He has a commanding lead over Kazuma Okamoto at third.
Jordan Alvarez will be the DH.
He is beating another Blue Jay, George Springer, by a wide margin.
And then Shea Langeliers will be the catcher.
He is crushing Alejandro Kirk.
So all these Blue Jays ended up getting like a ton of votes to go into the final two.
And I would say none of them except for Okamoto deserve to be there.
And they will all lose except for Vlad, which is so funny.
The outfield is Mike Trout, Byron Buxton.
Those two have a nice lead.
They'll be in.
Aaron Judge will probably be the third pick above Cody Bellinger and then Jesus Sanchez and Dalton Varsho.
Go Blue Jays.
