The starters:
National League
C: Buster Posey, San Francisco Giants
1B: Paul Goldschmidt, Arizona Diamondbacks
2B: Dee Gordon, Miami Marlins
3B: Todd Frazier, Cincinnati Reds
SS: Jhonny Peralta, St. Louis Cardinals
OF: Bryce Harper, Washington Nationals
OF: Giancarlo Stanton, Miami Marlins
OF: Matt Holliday, St. Louis Cardinals
Stanton and Holliday are both on the disabled list at the moment. Holliday, however, says he intends to play in the All-Star Game, per MLB.com’s Jenifer Langosch. Stanton is out four to six weeks after undergoing surgery to repair a fractured hamate bone in his left wrist.
Josh Donaldson was the American League’s leading vote-getter with over 14 million votes. That sets a new single-season record for votes, according to Baseball Tonight.
American League
C: Salvador Perez, Kansas City Royals
1B: Miguel Cabrera, Detroit Tigers
2B: Jose Altuve, Houston Astros
3B: Josh Donaldson, Toronto Blue Jays
SS: Alcides Escobar, Kansas City Royals
OF: Mike Trout, Los Angeles Angels
OF: Lorenzo Cain, Kansas City Royals
OF: Alex Gordon, Kansas City Royals
DH: Nelson Cruz, Seattle Mariners
Me neither. I thought I had heard that they were but I guess I heard incorrectly.
They should be forced to stuff ballots with paper ballots like we used to as kids
Either way, the AS game remains meaningless, and it's still absurd that home field in the World Series is decided by it
that's what I'm curious about...was there some way they beat the online system, or did they have to vote one ballot at a time?
If the latter, I guess they get credit for taking the time to stuff the ballot
If the latter, I guess they get credit for taking the time to stuff the ballot
This was all 100% on MLB and the way they coded their AS game balloting online. You could vote up to 30 times per email address. Where MLB web site developers made the mistake, was they didn't have a way to validate that address. Anyone could type in sample123@xxxxx.com and their votes would count.
So if you had ALOT of time and organize it properly, you could stuff the ballot with your teams favorite players. That's what the Royals fans did and at one point had 8 of the 9 starting positions (DH included) vote getters to be Royals players. They mass organized their fan base and used social media to spread the information out. Just to mess with MLB, a lot of other teams fan bases decided to join in and vote for the Royals players.
MLB didn't really mention anything early on because they LOVED the traffic this was generating. Once this started becoming a national news story, they decided to act and void a large portion of their votes.
Although good for them, They still got 4 players voted in.
agreed. The team with the best record should have home field. If the two teams have identical records, then the ASG result can be the tiebreaker
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is one of the biggest joke rules in all of sports. It's fucking trash and hopefully Manfred realizes how stupid it is and changes it, although I doubt it.
agreed. The team with the best record should have home field. If the two teams have identical records, then the ASG result can be the tiebreaker
1999 in Boston I think.