Judge, Ohtani lapping field in All-Star voting

Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani, who person combined to triumph 5 of the past 8 Most Valuable Player awards, are lapping the remainder of Major League Baseball successful the archetypal batch of All-Star Game balloting.

Judge, the New York Yankees' slugger who leads the majors successful batting mean (.378), on-base percent (.473) and slugging percent (.756) and shares the pb successful homers (26), leads each players with 1,568,527 votes from fans.

Ohtani, who has amassed a MLB-best 73 runs to spell with a .297 batting average, 25 homers and 11 steals, paces each National League players with 1,398,771 votes. The Los Angeles Dodgers' designated hitter is scheduled to transportation contiguous against the San Diego Padres -- his archetypal mound quality since Aug. 23, 2023, erstwhile helium was inactive with the Los Angeles Angels.

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 (1,043,168) and Toronto's Alejandro Kirk (370,460); First base: New York's Paul Goldschmidt (667,258) and Toronto's Vladimir Guerrero Jr. (614,726); Second base: Detroit's Gleyber Torres (535,079) and Baltimore's Jackson Holliday (440,093); Shortstop: the Athletics' Jacob Wilson (562,696) and Kansas City's Bobby Witt Jr. (519,984); Third base: Cleveland's Jose Ramirez (968,754) and Boston's Alex Bregman (397,581).

The apical six American League outfielders are Judge, Detroit's Riley Greene (675,070), Los Angeles' Mike Trout (475,265), Cleveland's Steven Kwan (457,882), Detroit's Javier Baez (421,342) and New York's Cody Bellinger (416,858). Baltimore's Ryan O'Hearn (353,029) leads New York's Ben Rice (232,331) successful the designated hitter category.

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

Catcher: Los Angeles' Will Smith (1,124,629) and Chicago's Carson Kelly (408,081); First base: Los Angeles' Freddie Freeman (1,136,389) and New York's Pete Alonso (895,900). Second base: Arizona's Ketel Marte (850,572) and Los Angeles' Tommy Edman (510,451); Shortstop: New York's Francisco Lindor (1,019,273) and Los Angeles' Mookie Betts (597,188); Third base: San Diego's Manny Machado (955,122) and Los Angeles' Max Muncy (415,750).

The apical six National League outfielders are Chicago's Pete Crow-Armstrong (1,126,119) and Kyle Tucker (704,740), Los Angeles' Teoscar Hernandez (685,553), New York's Juan Soto (625,618), Arizona's Corbin Carroll (597,805) and Atlanta's Ronald Acuna Jr. (596,363). When Rafael Devers (796,382) was traded from the Boston Red Sox to the San Francisco Giants connected Sunday, helium bumped Chicago's Seiya Suzuki (358,138) retired of the 2nd spot successful the DH balloting.