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How are the twins doing in the all star ballot voting?

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MLB announced their first All Star voting results so far today. Obviously we are still a few weeks away from the final vote. The top three at each position will go into the final vote to see who starts (9 in the outfield). 

 

This is where the Twins currently stand. 

 

At shortstop, Jorge Polanco currently leads the voting.

 

At 1B, CJ Cron is currently in second.

 

Jason Castro © and Nelson Cruz (DH) are both in 3rd place at their positions. Jonathan Schoop is in fourth among 2B. Marwin Gonzalez is 7th at third base.

 

In the outfield, Eddie Rosario is in 6th, Max Kepler in 10th and Byron Buxton is 11th. 

 

 

Keep voting... https://www.mlb.com/all-star/ballot 

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It will be hard to keep Garver from getting selected by the other players/manager. It would be pretty interesting if the Twins got two catchers in the game.

 

Also, maybe I'm just superstitious, but I'm hoping no Twins are in the HR derby, seems to me several guys have done it and screwed up their swing for the rest of the season. Or maybe that's old news from last decade and that doesn't happen anymore.

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The thing Garver will be fighting between now and the game...he just hasn't played much. He's like 37th among major league catchers in games played. It's amazing that some of his counting stats do make it into the top 10 among catchers, but bottom of top 10. It would kind of be bitter sweet to see either Garver or Castro make it, while the other did not.

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Why not?

 

You would need to ask the Twins that question. And probably why Gonzalez is on the ballot instead of Sano. The team submits names, the league doesn’t pick them.

 

I would think it had something to do with when the names needed to be submitted - I don't know how early into the season these need to be submitted, but I'm assuming fairly early. At the time, I think Castro was still considered our 'starting' catcher while Garver was the backup. And at the time, perhaps they weren't sure when Sano would be back, and until he was, Gonzales was our 3rd baseman.

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This is the first time they've voted on DH, right?

 

They've always voted the AL DH going back to 1989, when they started using it for AL home teams (now it's every year).  NL always gets to pick whomever to start for them, I remember Pedro Guerrero being the first NL DH from collecting those Panini Sticker Albums back then.

 

I've voted each of the last two weeks, five times a piece, so really glad to see Cron that high as I've picked him.  Also great to see guys like LaStella actually leading at 2B too, instead of Altuve or another bigger name.  But with the primary vote not deciding the winner, I have a feeling the bigger names with eventually win out on "election day". 

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They've always voted the AL DH going back to 1989, when they started using it for AL home teams (now it's every year).  NL always gets to pick whomever to start for them, I remember Pedro Guerrero being the first NL DH from collecting those Panini Sticker Albums back then.

 

I've voted each of the last two weeks, five times a piece, so really glad to see Cron that high as I've picked him.  Also great to see guys like LaStella actually leading at 2B too, instead of Altuve or another bigger name.  But with the primary vote not deciding the winner, I have a feeling the bigger names with eventually win out on "election day". 

You'd think I'd remember that. 

 

Is that the year Bo and Boggs led off with back-to-back HRs?

 

So old.

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I wish the all star game wasn't a popularity contest but actually was based on the level of production for the first half of the season. Not really fair to small market teams. 

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if my team has 100 fans and your team has 1000 fans and everyone votes 20 times, it seems like your team will be the big winner. am i missing something?

Then it is more a matter of “better” fans. How many actually vote more than once?

 

I’m not sure there is a way to have a fan vote that isn’t skewed by the realities of population.

 

Maybe get the math geeks involved and weigh votes relative to the population of the city/ metro area of the team?

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