Los Angeles Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani leads all major league players in \u2060early All-Star Game vote tabulations, ahead of the July 14 contest at Philadelphia.<\/p>\n
While Ohtani tops the National League with 1.17 million votes in the first update of this year\u2019s balloting, Houston Astros designated \u200bhitter Yordan Alvarez tops all American League players with 1.02 \u200cmillion votes.<\/p>\n
Ohtani, \u200c31, is back to a full season \u200bof pitching and hitting for the first time since 2023 when he was a member of the Los Angeles Angels. \u2060He is 6-2 with a 1.06 ERA on the mound and is batting .302 \u2060with 14 home runs and 41 RBIs in 65 games as a hitter.<\/p>\n
Three other Los Angeles Dodgers \u200bplayers lead their positions \u2060in voting: outfielder Andy Pages, first baseman Freddie Freeman and third baseman Max Muncy.<\/p>\n
The Atlanta Braves\u2019 Ronald \u2060Acuna Jr. \u200bis second in NL outfield voting, while \u200ba pair of teammates lead their positions in catcher Drake \u200bBaldwin \u200cand second baseman Ozzie Albies. The Washington Nationals\u2019 CJ Abrams leads at shortstop, while the Philadelphia Phillies\u2019 Brandon Marsh is third among NL outfielders.<\/p>\n
After Alvarez in the American League, \u200coutfielder Aaron Judge of the New York Yankees is the AL\u2019s second-leading vote-getter. Also in the top three of AL outfield voting are Mike Trout of the Los Angeles Angels and Cody Bellinger \u200bof the \u200bYankees.<\/p>\n
The defending AL champion Toronto Blue Jays \u200bhave both first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and second baseman Ernie \u2060Clement leading their positions. Other AL positions leaders are the Athletics\u2019 Shea Langeliers (catcher), the Tampa Bay Rays\u2019 Junior Caminero (third base) and the Kansas City Royals\u2019 Bobby Witt Jr. (shortstop).<\/p>\n
Phase 1 of All-Star \u200bGame voting runs through June 25, while Phase 2 begins June 29 and runs through July 2.<\/p>\n
The NL squad will be managed by the Dodgers\u2019 Dave Roberts, while the Blue Jays\u2019 John Schneider will serve as AL manager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani leads all major league players in \u2060early All-Star Game vote tabulations,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":739760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,499,26794,487,462,4241,482,82],"class_list":["post-739759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dave-roberts","tag-john-schneider","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-all-star-game","tag-shohei-ohtani","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}