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May 27, 2014It looks like Michael Brantley will have to hope for other means of becoming one of the Cleveland Indians’ representatives during the 2014 MLB All-Star Game. In the first release of tabulated voting, no member of the Tribe was listed among the top five players at each position (15 total outfielders).
Brantley, easily the Tribe’s best chance at a position player representative with a WAR of 1.8 (fourth best among qualified players), trails such worthy candidates like Detroit’s Rajai Davis (0.5) and Tori Hunter (-0.2). Los Angeles’ outfielder and MVP hopeful Mike Trout (rightfully) leads all American League players with over 764,000 votes with Toronto’s Jose Bautista and New York’s Jacoby Ellsbury rounding out the top three outfielders.
Fans who care to make a difference in this kind of thing can head to MLB.com and submit their vote. While you’re there, toss a vote to Good Guy David Murphy and write in Lonnie Chisenhall as a designated hitter. After all, third base hasn’t been too kind.1
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(AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
- You can also vote for Victor Martinez too—we’ll allow this. [↩]
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Kluber and Brantley definitely are playing like all-stars.
Here are hypothetical All-Stars if rosters were based on statistics (fWAR in this case)
http://imgur.com/a/Y5DMY
Gomes has an outside shot since there aren’t many catchers playing all that well in the American League this year.
Chisenhall if he had more at bats and continues the same production.
All-star balloting is retarded.
I would rather Kluber not pitch in AS game haha…
Chis makes too many errors!