Fan voting for the MLB All-Star game began on Wednesday, June 8, and Phase 1 of voting will end on June 30 at 2 pm ET. On Tuesday, Major League Baseball posted an update on the vote.
Rafael Devers currently leads the voting at third base in the American League with 727,669 votes, just 16,302 votes ahead of José Ramírez of Cleveland. Devers is hitting .330 with 16 home runs and 43 RBIs and leads the MLB with 89 hits.
Devers and Ramirez are in a tight race for the number one spot, after which there is a sharp drop in voting with Toronto’s Matt Chapman in third place with 406,182 votes.
As for other Red Sox players, Xander Bogaerts is in third place with 525,202 votes. Bogaerts still has a good chance of making the All-Star Game. The top three shortstops in the American League are only separated by 2% of the vote.
Toronto’s Bo Bichette has 19% of the vote with a total of 585,744 votes, while the White Sox’s Tim Anderson has 17% of the vote with a total of 528,278 votes. Bogaerts also has 17% of the vote.
JD Martinez ranks a distant third among American League designated hitters. He sits behind the Astros’ Yordan Alvarez, who has a clear lead in the voting with 835,669 votes. Shohei Ohtani of the Angels is in second place with 555,056 votes.
Trevor Story’s three-run homer last night led the Red Sox to their 5-4 victory against the Detroit Tigers, but his hitting has yet to push him past fifth in MLB All-Star voting. . With 48 RBIs, fifth in the American League, Story only has 320,262 votes. By comparison, José Altuve leads the second basemen with a total of 710,708 votes.
Boston catcher Christian Vazquez ranks fifth among other American League catchers with 199,010 votes.
Dodgers right fielder and former Red Sox World Series champion Mookie Betts leads the entire National League with 1,446,050 votes.
The 2022 All-Star Game will be played at Dodger Stadium on Tuesday, July 19.
