Mets' Francisco Lindor leads NL shortstops in first 2025 MLB All-Star Game voting update
The 2025 MLB All-Star Game is just under a month away, and for the first time in his time with the Mets, Francisco Lindor appears primed to make the National League's starting lineup.
With the first phase of initial voting update out, Lindor has received 1,019,273 votes, nearly double the number of the next closest shortstop, Los Angeles Dodgers' Mookie Betts (597,188).
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Lindor – with 13 doubles, 14 home runs, and a .279/.353/.475 slashline for an .828 OPS – is the lone Mets position player to be in first for their position.
Juan Soto is closest to grabbing a starting spot, as he is fourth among outfielders with 625,618 votes, behind the Chicago Cubs' duo of Pete Crow-Armstrong (1,126,119) and Kyle Tucker (704,740) and Los Angeles's Teoscar Hernández (685,553).
Pete Alonso (895,900) is also close on the heels of the Dodgers' Freddie Freeman (1,136,389) to be the NL's starter at first base.
While the fan voting is a popularity contest and not always necessarily about statistics, it is tough to find much distance between Alonso and Freeman.
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Entering Monday night New York's slugger has 22 doubles, 17 home runs, and 63 RBI with a .293/.390/.579 slashline for a .960 OPS (174 OPS+ and 169 wRC+). LA's man has 21 doubles, nine home runs, and 41 RBI with a .336/.409/.558 slash line for a .967 OPS (173 OPS+ and a 168 wRC+).
What about the Yankees?
No surprise for the team from The Bronx: Aaron Judge received the most votes for any player in the majors and has more than double the votes for any AL outfielder with 1,568,527. (He is 169,756 votes ahead of Shohei Ohtani for the most votes overall.)
Even after a rough series in Boston, the reigning MVP has done nothing but prove to be one of the most feared hitters in the game as he has 17 doubles, 26 home runs, and 60 RBI, with a .378/.473/.756 slashline for a 1.228 OPS (238 OPS+ and 236 wRC+).
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The Yanks also have Paul Goldschmidt (667,258) in first place at first base, just ahead of Toronto's Vladimir Guerrero Jr. (615, 726).
Ben Rice (232,331) is in second place for DH behind Baltimore's Ryan O'Hearn (353,029). First-year Yank Cody Bellinger (416,858) is in sixth place among outfielders, but just under 60,000 votes behind the Angels' Mike Trout (475,265), who occupies the third and final outfield slot.
Jazz Chsicholm Jr. (250,416) is fourth for AL second baseman, which is currently led by ex-Yank and current Detroit Tiger Gleyber Torres (535,079).
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The player who winds up as the top vote-getter at each position before phase 1 of voting ends on June 26 will receive an automatic spot on the All-Star team, while the second-highest vote-getter at each position advances to phase 2 of voting (June 30-July 2).
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The reserves and pitchers on the team will be determined by the player ballot, which means deserving Mets and Yankees can get in that way if they aren't voted in by the fans.
Each team will have 32 players (20 position players and 12 pitchers, which includes at least three relievers).
The game will take place at Truist Park in Atlanta on July 15.
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