New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) – Mike Trout of the Angels continues to lead all American League vote-getters after the second release of the 2014 All-Star balloting.<\/p>\n
However, Trout saw a lead of nearly 100,000 votes trimmed down to just under 10,000 this week, as Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Jose Bautista cut heavily into the advantage. Trout has a total of 1,361,649 votes, while Bautista has 1,351,896.<\/p>\n
Bautista’s teammate in Toronto, Melky Cabrera (743,208), moved into third in outfield balloting, leaping both Jacoby Ellsbury (625,206) and Carlos Beltran (565,554) of the Yankees.<\/p>\n
New York shortstop Derek Jeter is the only other player with more than one million votes. Jeter (1,007,968) has a comfortable lead over Chicago’s Alexei Ramirez (867,156).<\/p>\n
Detroit’s Miguel Cabrera continues to lead all first basemen with 962,138 votes. Chicago’s Jose Abreu remains in second place at the position with 602,628 votes.<\/p>\n
At second base, Seattle’s Robinson Cano (726,158) moved past Detroit’s Ian Kinsler (649,926), who held a lead of just under 6,000 votes last week.<\/p>\n
Oakland’s Josh Donaldson (956,811) continues to hold a comfortable lead over Tampa Bay’s Evan Longoria (589,621) at third base and Baltimore’s Matt Wieters (842,775) also has a nice margin over New York’s Brian McCann (605,941).<\/p>\n
Baltimore’s Nelson Cruz overtook Boston’s David Ortiz for the lead among designated hitters. Cruz, who enters this week’s action with a league-leading 20 homers and 52 RBI through 54 games, has 888,855 votes compared to 766,631 for Ortiz.<\/p>\n
Voting will conclude July 3. The All-Star teams will be revealed the weekend of July 5-6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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