All-Star voting/rosters [Reply #43: Braun 4th in OF votes and the only Brewers' all-star]

[PrinceEatMeat]

The 1st rd of voting results is out, and Braun is 3rd in the NL OF. It's nice to see him still among the vote leaders, and as a starter. Hopefully it stays that way. Here's the full results.

 

NL

 

AL

[Outlander]

Braun has a pretty healthy lead over Ethier so it sure looks like he will start. Would be nice if Greinke got a chance to play in front of Kansas City as well.

[pitchleague]

wow, Pujols hardly has any votes compared to Prince! (small standing O for that!)

[MJLiverock]

Berkman in 2nd shows how many Cardinal fans are voting. Does Berkman even have 50 plate appearances? I imagine many of them are withholding the vote for Pujols in the AL side of the ledger but can they actually be voting for Prince?

[logan82]

Hey look two former Brewers SS on the list. We must have a fantastic SS playing for us to get rid of 2 guys that good.

[jjfanec]

Hey look two former Brewers SS on the list. We must have a fantastic SS playing for us to get rid of 2 guys that good.

 

The Brewers SS to start this year is actually 5th in the NL.

[pretendastronaut]

Rickie having more votes than Lucroy is a travesty.

[Mays Hayes]

What does Carlos Gonzales have to do to get some respect from voters? Apparently playing awesome just doesn't cut it. 13th among outfielders!!

 

I was just talking with a friend other day about who might beat out Braun this year, and CarGo was one of the guys I thought might bump him out of the starting lineup along with Kemp/Beltran/Ethier..... but I guess we don't have to worry about him!

[pitchleague]

I really don't think it matters, when it comes to Braun. If he's smart, and I think he is, he will accept the vote-in as a starter but probably sit out the game and HR Derby, just as he did a couple of years ago.

 

Or did they changed the rules that vote-in players must play? I thought I read about that once, or maybe it was just a rumor.

[Patrick425]

So, where can you find these results online??

 

Yesterday, I got an email from the Brewers stating Braun was in 3rd and urging me to vote. I was interested in seeing all the current results. The email just gave me a link to A) the voting ballot and B) the Brewers home page. I then found a link to the All Star home page which did not have any current results or link to current results that I could find. Why do they make the current results so hard to find??

 

Looks like PrinceEatMeat basically posted a picture of a hard copy of the current results (where did you get those from?). Are these not online anywhere? If so, why not?

[Outlander]

^

Scroll down the page a little for the results.

 

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120604&content_id=32744618&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb

[Patrick425]

Thanks. I'm guessing I could not find it yesterday because I was just looking for some link that stated "All Start voting results" or something like that. It would be much easier to find if they did that instead of putting it at the bottom of an article about all start voting.

[3and2Fastball]

Adam Jones deserves a start in the AL.

 

Maybe it is because I've been focusing on Hall of Fame players lately but this list, outside of Votto, Hamilton, Braun, Jeter and David Wright, looks a little underwhelming to me.

[BradWI]

Would be nice if Greinke got a chance to play in front of Kansas City as well.

 

He'll get to pitch there next week when we play them if nothing else.

[hawing]

wow, Pujols hardly has any votes compared to Prince! (small standing O for that!)

I'd guess that Prince is getting a chunk of votes from Brewers fans. It is interesting that that nostalgia factor of a player's former fanbase crossing over is not working for Albert.

 

The STL cult is certainly coming through for Lance, though. (And I say that with complete acknowledgement that Milwaukee fans are casting plenty of barely-rational if not irrational votes themselves. ) I wonder how many of the votes for Berkman are actually "take THAT, Albert!" votes.

[PrinceEatMeat]

http://www.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120612&content_id=33164576&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb&partnerId=aw-5342792965695780583-996#nlvoteupdate0612

 

2nd rd of voting results is out. Braun is still holding onto the 3rd spot in the OF.

[The stache]

Jonathan Lucroy, Brewers: 588,710

Rickie Weeks, Brewers: 642,184

 

That's all kinds of wrong.

[brwrsfan]

Braun is slowing losing some ground. Need to keep voting for him. I'm guessing fans are going to see him in line to start and many will vote against him due to the steroid thing. Hope he can hang on another couple weeks.

 

Even though many of the votes are likely Brewers fans (see Weeks total), many of them are not and it would go a long way for Braun to move past this offseason stuff by winning the fan vote.

[The stache]

I just popped off 200 more votes for Braun (and Lucroy).

[jjfanec]

Braun is now 4th in NL OF voting. Melky Cabrera jumped in front of him.

 

http://brewersbeat.mlblogs.com/2012/06/19/braun-falls-out-of-all-star-starting-lineup/

[PrinceEatMeat]

Giants fans have evidently been voting for Cabrera a ton, but Braun is still well within striking distance. It's gonna be a close race. Probably won't matter though honestly, because Kemp will drop out due to injury.

[pretendastronaut]

I put in 75 votes for Braun and Lucroy today, and I'll do some at the stadium tonight.

[brains and braun]

ASG = Joke

[Funketown]

As NL fans we should really be banding together and electing the absolute worst players from the AL to start the All-Star game. That way, we'd get at least three innings of horrendous play from the AL. It would be a solid advantage.

 

C - Kurt Suzuki (.240 wOBA)

1B - Casey Kotchman (.284 wOBA)

2B - Robert Andino (.274 wOBA)

SS - Alexei Ramirez (.240 wOBA)

3B - Sean Rodriguez (.269 wOBA)

OF - Delmon Young (.296 wOBA)

OF - Brennan Boesch (.280 wOBA)

OF - Jeff Francoeur (.307 wOBA)

DH - YUNI!

[AZBrewCrew]

Giants fans have evidently been voting for Cabrera a ton, but Braun is still well within striking distance. It's gonna be a close race. Probably won't matter though honestly, because Kemp will drop out due to injury.

 

^ this. Im not even sure if Kemp will be off the DL by the ASG