{"id":362354,"date":"2026-06-16T04:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T04:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/362354\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T04:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T04:24:10","slug":"rays-caminero-leads-al-third-basemen-in-all-star-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/362354\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays&#8217; Caminero leads AL third basemen in All-Star voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 Major League Baseball released its first ballot update for the 2026 All-Star Game on Monday, and some Tampa Bays Rays are picking up votes.<\/p>\n<p>At third base in the American League, Junior Caminero has 625,520 votes and would start the All-Star Game if the voting ended now. He leads Kazuma Okamoto of the Toronto Blue Jays by about 69,000 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Caminero entered play Monday hitting .271 with 15 home runs and 32 RBI.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Yandy Diaz has the third-most votes at designated hitter, and Jonathan Aranda is in eighth place among first basemen.<\/p>\n<p>Houston Astros designated hitter Jordan Alvarez has 1,015,768 votes and is the only AL player with more than a million.<\/p>\n<p>In the National League, Los Angeles Dodgers designated hitter Shohei Ohtani has 1,165,133 votes and is the only NL player with more than a million. He also pitches for the Dodgers and has posted an ERA of just 1.06 this season.<\/p>\n<p>The All-Star Game will be played July 14 in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>To view more voting totals and how starting lineups will be decided, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/2026-mlb-all-star-ballot-first-update\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 Major League Baseball released its first ballot update for the 2026 All-Star Game on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,13360,6632,553,100,8537,2998,127,13355,48889],"class_list":["post-362354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-app-professional-sports","tag-app-sports","tag-florida","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-sports","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-rays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}