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The Orioles probably won’t match last year’s total of five All-Stars, but they have a chance to send two starters to Truist Field in Atlanta.
Ryan O’Hearn and the Yankees’ Ben Rice are the finalists at designated hitter in the American League. O’Hearn received 1,762,125 votes and Rice garnered 674,120.
Jackson Holliday, in his first full major league season, and the Tigers’ Gleyber Torres are finalists at second base. Torres received 1,981,665 votes and Holliday 1,302,186.
Phase 2 of voting begins Monday at noon and concludes Wednesday at noon. The winners will be announced that night at 7 p.m. on ESPN.
Fans are allowed to vote once per day on MLB platforms, and totals will reset. Phase 1 balloting doesn’t carry over to Phase 2.
Pitchers and reserves, totaling 23 for each league, are determined through a combination of “Player Ballot” choices and selections coming from the commissioner’s office. The rest of the rosters will be announced Sunday, July 6 at 5 p.m. on ESPN.
O’Hearn could become the first Orioles designated hitter to start in an All-Star Game since Nelson Cruz in 2014. He’s batting .301/.384/.485 with nine doubles, 11 home runs and 30 RBIs in 67 games. He’s served as the DH in 27 games, and played first base in 25, right field in 15 and left field in two.
Holliday, the first-overall pick in the 2022 draft, could be the first Orioles second baseman at the All-Star Game since Jonathan Schoop in 2017. Brian Roberts went in 2005 and 2007, and Roberto Alomar in 1996-98.
Bobby Grich was labeled as a shortstop/second baseman in 1972, ‘74 and ’76. Davey Johnson was selected at second base in 1968-70.
Roberts is the last Oriole to start in 2005.
Holliday is batting .259/.310/.411 with 12 doubles, two triples, nine home runs and 32 RBIs in 73 games and has become the full-time leadoff hitter. His father, Matt, was a seven-time All-Star.
The 2025 All-Star Game will be played July 15. Corbin Burnes, Gunnar Henderson, Adley Rutschman, Anthony Santander and Jordan Westburg represented the club last summer in Texas. Rutschman, Félix Bautista, Yennier Cano and Austin Hays went in 2023 in Seattle.
Bautista has a chance to be selected again with 16 saves, a 2.60 ERA and 38 strikeouts in 27 2/3 innings.
Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani are the leading vote-getters in each league and earn automatic berths.
The other AL battles are Vladimir Gurrero Jr. versus Paul Goldschmidt at first base, Jacob Wilson versus Bobby Witt Jr. at shortstop, José Ramírez versus Alex Bregman at third, Cal Raleigh versus Alejandro Kirk at catcher, and Riley Greene, Javier Báez, Mike Trout and Steven Kwan for the two remaining outfield spots.
* Left-hander Cade Povich made his first injury rehab start today with Triple-A Norfolk and allowed three earned runs and five total with seven hits, one walk and three strikeouts in 4 1/3 innings. He threw 75 pitches, 46 for strikes.
Jorge Mateo went 1-for-3 as the designated hitter before Samuel Basallo pinch-hit for him.
* Norfolk outfielder Jud Fabian went on the seven-day injured list with a left wrist strain.
Fabian, a second-round draft pick in 2022 and the No. 24 prospect in the system, per MLB Pipeline, is batting .221.332/.441 with nine doubles, a triple, 12 home runs and 29 RBIs in 65 games.
