NEW YORK – Toronto Blue Jays second baseman Ernie Clement leads all American League players in fan balloting for the 2026 all-star game in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n
Clement moved ahead of Houston Astros designated hitter Yordan Alvarez in the latest voting update from Major League Baseball on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Clement, who has a .292 average with seven homers and 28 RBIs over 75 games, has received 2,054,130 total votes, MLB said. The 30-year-old has a healthy lead on Ezequiel Duran (531,182) of the Texas Rangers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers leads all players with 2,310,735 total votes.<\/p>\n
Toronto’s Vladimir Guerrero Jr. (1,458,461) is well ahead of New York’s Ben Rice (882,772) in the voting for AL first baseman. At third base, Blue Jays teammate Kazuma Okamoto (1,282,884) is a close second behind Junior Caminero (1,310,879) of the Tampa Bay Rays.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Three other Toronto players –catcher Alejandro Kirk, designated hitter George Springer and shortstop Andres Gimenez — are all second in positional voting but well behind the leaders.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The first phase of voting continues until Thursday. The starters and full all-star rosters will be named on July 4.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 22, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK – Toronto Blue Jays second baseman Ernie Clement leads all American League players in fan balloting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[5,2323,2317,2313,2413,6130,54,19,2310,2328,2304,2318,2308,2319,4,2305,2303,1239,2327,185,70],"class_list":["post-732879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb-postseason","tag-baseball","tag-baseball-events","tag-baseball-games","tag-baseball-playoffs-and-champions","tag-champion-seasons-in-major-league-baseball","tag-ernie-clement","tag-houston-astros","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-major-league-baseball-competitions","tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","tag-major-league-baseball-seasons","tag-major-league-baseball-teams","tag-major-league-baseball-teams-seasons","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-mlb-postseason","tag-politics","tag-seasons-in-american-sport","tag-sports","tag-toronto-blue-jays"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}