Final Vote
16 July 2010
y Votto (.314/.422/.589 with 22 home runs) was elected to the National League All-Star team via the Final Vote. Billy Wagner, Carlos Gonzalez, and Ryan Zimmerman are great players and were all worthy of roster spots, but Votto should have been the NL’s starting first baseman over Albert Pujols, and it would have been a travesty had he not made it in the end. Votto leads the NL in both On-Base Percentage and Slugging Percentage and is tied for the lead in home runs; if the season ended today, he’d likely be voted the league’s Most Valuable Player. It’s too bad, then, that Votto went 0-2 and did not make an impact in the game. (Each of the other first basemen on the National League side – Pujols, Ryan Howard, and Adrian Gonzalez – went 0-2 as well.)
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