Voting for All-Stars is the worst. It is not a fair indication of how someone is playing this season. You get a lot of fan favorites who carry the weight of the starters, and other times, fans recognize good play. It appeared that the overall baseball fan did not know how good of a year Yasmani Grandal put together for the Milwaukee Brewers. Grandal found himself at the fifth on the All-Star voting for catchers last week. It was a joke, but nothing to get angry about as again, the fans are voting on this instead of the players. But the fans seemed to have woken up recently, Grandal is now third in All-Star voting for catchers which will put him into the second round voting if he can hold his position.

.@YazmanianDVL08, who has jumped from 5th to 3rd place in All-Star voting among NL catchers, leads @MLB as a catcher in HR (15), extra-base hits (26), total bases (120), walks (37), OBP (.401), SLG (.571), OPS (.972) and RBI (T1st, 38). #Brewers

— Mike Vassallo (@MikeVassallo13) June 17, 2019

Look, will Grandal get in there? Probably not. I’ll be a realist here. He is competing against Willson Contreas of the Chicago Cubs (Very public team) and Brian ‘The Moral Arbitor’ McCann of the Atlanta Braves (Very public team). Brewers catcher going up against probably two guys each playing for a wildly popular team is not going to help things. If Grandal stays in the top three by Friday, he will be part of the election process for the starter. A new thing MLB is trying to keep people’s interest in voting for All-Stars. I will say it does add some intrigue to the fan vote.

Charlie.