All-Star Ballots: Utley Leads Everyone, Others Lagging
Posted by Tim Malcolm, Tue, June 10, 2008 02:56 PM | Comments: 8
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Chase Utley continues to outpace everyone in National League All-Star voting.
Utley has 1,284,961 votes, more than 600,000 above Dan Uggla and the most of any player in baseball. His teammates, however, are suffering.
Pat Burrell has been pushed back to ninth place, with Ryan Braun, Matt Holliday and Hunter Pence leapfrogging him. Jimmy Rollins remains parked behind four shortstops, some 250,000 votes shy of first place. And Ryan Howard is mired in fourth place among first basemen with less than 400,000 votes (Utley received more votes last week than Howard overall).
Current leaders have changed slightly, with Miguel Tejada taking over for Hanley Ramirez. Thanks, Astros fans, for removing the best shortstop in baseball from his perch.
The team stands as: Geovany Soto/Lance Berkman/Chase Utley/Chipper Jones/Miguel Tejada/Alfonso Soriano/Kosuke Fukudome/Ken Griffey Jr.
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Posts: 0 Phil
These Cubs and Astros fans are just as bad as the Red Sox and Yankees fans, although I do agree that Soto could possibly start and Berkman definitely should. Let’s start voting for Burrell people!!!
Posted: 03:12 PM on June 10, 2008
Posts: 0 Jeffrey
Although Cubs fans are obviously stuffing the ballot boxes and Burrell is getting short shrift, I’m not sure which other Phillies I’m supposed to vote for unless we’re just stuffing the ballot boxes ourselves. Which would make us hypocrites for criticizing fans of other teams for doing that.
Howard? Rollins? Féliz? Victorino? I love these guys but none of them is having a season as good as other NL players at their positions.
Posted: 03:29 PM on June 10, 2008
Posts: 0 Jeffrey
I’ve still already voted several times for Utley, Rollins, and Burrell, by the way.
Posted: 03:30 PM on June 10, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
I’ve been voting for Utley, Rollins, Burrell, and writing in Coste. I’m starting to think Vic is deserving now. Feliz no Howard no Werth and Jenkins no. Who’s gonna start CF if the top 3 are Fukodome, Soriano, and Griffey. Maybe make Griffey a DH? It’s also ridiculous Aaron Rowand isn’t on that list. He’s having an awesome year.
Posted: 03:34 PM on June 10, 2008
Posts: 0 Mike T.
The voting results make perfect sense, I don’t see any other All-Star worthy players on offense other than Utley.
Posted: 03:51 PM on June 10, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
Yeah, but I think Burrell is more deserving that Fukodome. Burrell is having an all-star year and should make it as a back up DH or OF.
Posted: 03:54 PM on June 10, 2008
Posts: 0 Mike T.
Oh yeah, when you’re uploading pictures for the blog, save them to your hard drive and reformat them before re-posting. The quality of some of these photos is killing me. You used a png that is 80.59 KB, when it should be no more than 40 KB with the space given.
Posted: 03:56 PM on June 10, 2008
Posts: 1650 Tim Malcolm
Meh, pic looks fine on my computer.
Posted: 04:26 PM on June 10, 2008