The Braves will host the 2025 MLB All-Star Game, but if they’re going to have multiple players representing the hometown team, there’s more work to do.
Only one Braves player, outfielder Ronald Acuña Jr., was among the top five at his position in the second batch of fan voting, released Monday afternoon.
Although he’s played in just 27 games through Sunday, he’s batting .396 with a .504 on-base percentage and 1.202 OPS, which would all be career-best numbers, though it’s from a smaller sample size.
Acuña trails the Cubs’ Pete Crow-Armstrong (2,005,630 votes), the Dodgers’ Teoscar Hernández (1,366,537) and the Cubs’ Kyle Tucker (1,219,866) in the quest for a starting spot. Acuña leads the Mets’ Juan Soto (1,048,781), who is in fifth place.
Here’s where other Braves players are in the second batch of voting:
First base: Matt Olson, 7th
Second base: Ozzie Albies, 7th
Shortstop: Nick Allen, 7th
Third base: Austin Riley, 6th
Designated hitter: Marcell Ozuna, 6th
Catcher: Sean Murphy, 9th
Voting in Phase 1 ends on Thursday at noon. The top two vote-getters from each position (top six for outfielders) in each league will move to Phase 2 — which goes from June 30-July 2 — and the voting totals are reset.
The All-Star starters will be announced on Sunday, July 6 for the big game on July 15 at Truist Park.
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