The latest updates from MLB suggest that no Red Sox players will be voted onto the American League All-Star team. While earlier tallies had
Mookie Betts,
Xander Bogaerts and even
Andrew Benintendi with decent shots at election, the new results are not promising. For example, Mookie is 90,641 votes behind third-place OF
George Springer. Even with #2 OF vote-getter
Mike Trout likely out due to injury, Betts
still trails the fourth place holder,
Michael Brantley by 62,302. And, the X-Man is a whopping 609,966 votes behind SS leader
Carlos Correa. Finally,
Benny Ballgame is 253,388 votes behind Springer in the outfield race. So, unless
Red Sox Nation mounts a massive get-out-the-vote effort (or hires a Russian hacking outfit), there won't be any
Carmine Hosers in Miami on July 11th. Except, of course, any coach selections and/or an obligatory "designated" representative of the team (
Chris Sale,
Craig Kimbrel?)
