Guerrero takes lead at 1B in AL All-Star voting

Four-time All-Star Vladimir Guerrero Jr. of the Toronto Blue Jays jumped up of seven-time All-Star Paul Goldschmidt of the New York Yankees for the apical spot astatine archetypal basal successful the American League arsenic the archetypal signifier of Major League Baseball's All-Star Game balloting nears its conclusion.

Guerrero, who volition necktie a franchise grounds if he's selected by the fans for a 4th time, has garnered 1,192,604 votes for a play that has him batting .279 with 10 location runs and 39 RBIs done 76 games. Goldschmidt, the National League's MVP successful 2022, remains wrong striking region with 1,118,501 votes.

Also going for a franchise grounds is Atlanta Braves outfielder Ronald Acuna Jr., who seeks a 5th All-Star motion from the fans that would lucifer Hall of Famer Hank Aaron and Dale Murphy for the astir successful Braves history.

Acuna, who would get to play successful beforehand of his location fans July 15 astatine Truist Field, jumped 2 spots successful the latest tabulations to fertile 4th among NL outfielders with 1,140,061 full votes. His leap is apt owed to the .396/.504/.698 slash enactment helium has produced -- on with 29 runs and 8 location runs -- successful 27 games since returning from the injured database connected May 23.

Seattle Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh looks good connected his mode to his archetypal All-Star quality arsenic helium leads the majors successful location runs with 31. His 1,901,389 votes are tops among each AL catchers and fertile 2nd wide successful the AL.

Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani, who person combined to triumph 5 of the past 8 Most Valuable Player awards, proceed to pb the mode successful wide voting.

Judge, the New York Yankees slugger who paces the majors successful batting mean (.367), on-base percent (.468) and slugging percent (.727), leads each players with 2,699,483 instrumentality votes.

Ohtani, who has amassed an MLB-best 76 runs to spell with a .291 batting average, 26 homers and 11 steals, paces each National League players with 2,521,718 votes.

This year's All-Star Game balloting process features 2 stages of instrumentality voting. The existent signifier runs done Thursday, June 26. At that point, the apical 2 vote-getters astatine each presumption (including six outfielders) successful each league volition prosecute successful a run-off to find which players volition commencement July 15 astatine the Atlanta Braves' Truist Field.

Here are the apical American League vote-getters astatine each position:

Catcher: Seattle's Cal Raleigh (1,901,389)

First base: Toronto's Vladimir Guerrero Jr. (1,192,604)

Second base: Detroit's Gleyber Torres (1,133,888)

Shortstop: Athletics rookie Jacob Wilson (1,120,791)

Third base: Cleveland's Jose Ramirez (1,780,631)

The apical 3 American League outfielders are Judge, Detroit's Riley Greene(1,370,098), and Detroit's Javier Baez (901,969). Baltimore's Ryan O'Hearn (937,205) leads each designated hitters.

Ohtani and his Dodgers teammates are well-represented among the National League's apical vote-getters astatine each position:

Catcher: Los Angeles' Will Smith (2,099,944)

First base: Los Angeles' Freddie Freeman (2,095,672)

Second base: Arizona's Ketel Marte (1,561,235)

Shortstop: New York's Francisco Lindor (1,641,053)

Third base: San Diego's Manny Machado (1,683,022)

The apical 3 National League outfielders are Chicago's Pete Crow-Armstrong (2,005,630) and Kyle Tucker (1,219,866) on with Los Angeles' Teoscar Hernandez (1,366,537).

Ohtani's full votes enactment him successful archetypal spot successful DH voting for the NL, followed by San Francisco's Rafael Devers (1,103,085) and the Cubs' Seiya Suzuki (641,687).