Cleveland fans are doing a great job at stuffing the all star ballot boxes

Carlos should be 5th at best.

FIRST BASE
1. Miguel Cabrera, Tigers: 475,826
2. Yonder Alonso, A's: 433,570
3. Carlos Santana, Indians: 420,336
4. Eric Hosmer, Royals: 399,545
5. Yuli Gurriel, Astros: 336,117

Altuve deserves to be #1.

SECOND BASE
1. Jose Altuve, Astros: 998,107
2. Starlin Castro, Yankees: 778,699
3. Jason Kipnis, Indians: 402,228
4. Robinson Cano, Mariners: 248,739
5. Dustin Pedroia, Red Sox: 213,804

Lindor has been out-gunned by 4 other players but holds a very large lead

SHORTSTOP
1. Francisco Lindor, Indians: 842,166
2. Carlos Correa, Astros: 662,124
3. Didi Gregorius, Yankees: 397,326
4. Xander Bogaerts, Red Sox: 389,541
5. Jean Segura, Mariners: 250,665

Jose deserves his spot in 2nd. Sano is having a great year. Ramirez has played better than Machado, Donaldson, and Bregman

THIRD BASE
1. Miguel Sano, Twins: 638,952
2. Jose Ramirez, Indians: 541,040
3. Manny Machado, Orioles: 520,116
4. Josh Donaldson, Blue Jays: 332,287
5. Alex Bregman, Astros: 305,348

Castillo having a good year but running behind.

CATCHER
1. Salvador Perez, Royals: 692,867 votes
2. Welington Castillo, Orioles: 543,146
3. Brian McCann, Astros: 512,077
4. Gary Sanchez, Yankees: 461,152
5. Yan Gomes, Indians: 381,178

Brantley looks good at number 3. Garcia is having a very good spring and running a close 3rd. Springer also running a close 3rd. Keep stuffing the box

OUTFIELD
1. Aaron Judge, Yankees: 1,251,543
2. Mike Trout, Angels: 1,155,356
3. Michael Brantley, Indians: 554,620
4. Mookie Betts, Red Sox: 519,146
5. Avisail Garcia, White Sox: 479,349
6. Andrew Benintendi, Red Sox: 416,461
7. George Springer, Astros: 413,115
8. Carlos Beltran, Astros: 370,951
9. Brett Gardner, Yankees: 364,493
10. Lonnie Chisenhall, Indians: 348,816
11. Jose Bautista, Blue Jays: 330,904
12. Adam Jones: Orioles: 327,983
13. Abraham Almonte, Indians: 302,402
14. Josh Reddick, Astros: 289,942
15. Jacoby Ellsbury, Yankees: 269,974

Don't know how Encarnacion garnered all the votes. Keep stuffing that ballot box Cleveland fans

DESIGNATED HITTER
1. Nelson Cruz, Mariners: 615,955
2. Matt Holliday, Yankees: 460,355
3. Edwin Encarnacion, Indians: 447,275
4. Corey Dickerson, Rays: 446,121
5. Evan Gattis, Astros: 326,584

MANAGER
1. Tito

Tito would be out of his mind if he fails to select Allen and Miller

PITCHERS
1. Allen
2. Miller

Almonte starting a rehab stint with Columbus today.

Twins lost again last night on a walk off by Seattle.

Even though we have lost 5 of last 7 games we are still only 1 game out.

Zack Meisel‏ @ZackMeisel 1 hour ago
Francisco Lindor has ditched his blonde hair. "We haven't been winning, so I had to change it." Pretty big deal.

Thank goodness. Was ridiculous. Not as bad as Roberto Perez but bad.

HOT weather coming this week. Maybe the bats will heat up, too?

https://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/fi ... uery=44118

Former Ohio State safety and current Cleveland Brown, Tyvis Powell, is throwing out the first pitch at the Indians game tonight.

Well the Browns just cut him...

Pretty crappy move if you ask me. He's a local Cleveland kid, could have waited a few days to make the cut.

I just read that the Browns didn't know he was throwing out first pitch when they cut him. Too bad.

He is still going to throw out first pitch.

Salazar back in Cle. Had MRI on right shoulder after feeling pain during BP session with AA Akron. MRI clean, does have swelling in shoulder.

I posted this in Minor league folder but for those who don't read there ...

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Akron RubberDucks‏ @AkronRubberDuck 7 hours ago
Mejia is hitting .514 vs. LHP's this season.

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Our troubles against lefty starters will soon be coming to an end

J.R. wrote:In the last 15 games, Encarnacion is batting .352 with 6 HR and 11 RBI

Was sooo painful to see that homer he CRUSHED over the LF foul pole called foul!!

As I posted in the GameTime™ folder:

You would think that they would have cameras on top of all the foul poles in every park, facing directly toward home. Don't have to be fancy, just good enough to see the path of the balls.

Anything hit high enough and far enough should be called fair, if there is any doubt.

Fans like HRs

And also from the minors folder that you may have missed ...

Lake County Captains‏ @LCCaptains
Confirmed: Ryan Merritt is back in a Captains uniform and will start tonight's game at 7pm. The @BGHotRods must be shaking in their boots.

Rumor is Merritt was moved to Lake County for tonights start so he could stay on schedule to pitch Saturday in one of the double header games for Cleveland against Minnesota. (Columbus and Akron are off tonight)

J.R. wrote:As I posted in the GameTime™ folder:

You would think that they would have cameras on top of all the foul poles in every park, facing directly toward home. Don't have to be fancy, just good enough to see the path of the balls.

Agree - and maybe that exact example will get the attention of the replay office of MLB.

In case you didn't see it, here is the "foul" ball.

https://m.facebook.com/video_redirect/? ... 2&__tn__=F