A pair of Houston Astros sluggers are poised to advance to the second round of voting for the American League All-Star Team.
, in spite of being under .500 this season, have two players who could play their way into a starting spot on the
Designated hitter Yordan Alvarez and second baseman Jose Altuve lead their respective positions, while outfielder Kyle Tucker is in the top three in the outfield. Altuve is shooting for his ninth All-Star Game berth and his sixth nod as a starter. He has 620,724 votes, which puts him less than 100,000 votes ahead of last year’s starter, the Rangers’ Marcus Semien . If both advance the voters would determine which of them starts.
Tucker is well behind the Yankees’ duo of Aaron Judge and Juan Soto with 593,358 votes. That would be enough to get Tucker to the second stage. Judge is the AL’s leading vote-getter and if he remains there he would get an automatic spot in the starting lineup, leaving two open spots.
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