Rollins, Werth among Phillies falling in All-Star voting
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Rollins, Werth among Phillies falling in All-Star voting
Daily News staff
Florida's Hanley Ramirez has moved ahead of sidelined Phillies shortstop Jimmy Rollins in the lastest Natioal League All-Star balloting released today.
Ramirez has 835,275 votes to Rollins' 792,987. Rollins was leading by about 22,000 at the last report. According to MLB.com, the Marlins recently had a voting initiative at their ballpark in which fans who attended games and filled out ballots received tickets to a future game.
Phillies outfielders Jayson Werth and Shane Victorino also fell, with neither currently in the starting lineup. Werth fell from second to fourth and Victorino went from fourth to fifth.
Milwaukee's Ryan Braun leads NL outfielders with 1,017,266 votes, followed by surging Atlanta rookie Jason Heyward (1,008,451) and the Dodgers' Andre Ethier (985,305). Werth has 901,978 votes and Victorino has 819,756.
Chase Utley remains the overall NL leading votegetter with 1,573,248 votes.
Third baseman Placido Polanco is the only other Phillie leading at his position, with 726,324 votes. The Mets' David Wright is second at 550,935.
At first base, Ryan Howard trails St. Louis' Albert Pujols. Howard has 761,852. Pujols is at 1,549,941.
Carlos Ruiz is third among catchers, behind Yadier Molina from St. Louis (762,875) and Atlanta's Brian McCann (676,400). Ruiz has 604,192 votes.
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I do agonize over Chase's inability to do ANYTHING during this cursed time. Remembering what his bad hip did to him in '08, this could be a recurrence. Or something else physical happening to him. It has been too long to be a "mental" type slump.— TBear- Anyone who can say Utley deserves to start in the all star game with a straight face must be a hell of a poker player— Joe Lis lives
- The fans seem to be paying attention a lot better now. Prado should probably go instead of Chase, and although I hate the Mets, Wright has better numbers than Polanco.— JayDuce
- In all honesty, they don't deserve to go to the All Star game with the way their playing. I'm with ReviewThis... only Halladay deserves to go right now.— TerryW
- Rollins should have stayed out of politics.— FJG JR
- Halliday and Hamels, maybe. No position players deserve it.— GA in Blue Bell
- They were on a road trip, the votes always fluctuate depending upon which teams are playing at home— JimG
- Scott Rolen, Ryan Zimmerman & Casey McGehee are having great years at thirdbase. Polanco should not make the team...— Jeff Dowder
- Jayson Werth shouldn't be within 3000 miles of the AS game, what a joke. Rollins deserves it and should be there. Hanley Ramirez is a prat and shouldn't be there. The NL will lose this game again, because it's the inferior league.— boasocal
- Rollins has been hurt for almost the entire season, he doesn't deserve to go. In fact, almost no one on this team deserves to go. It's embarrassing how high in the vote tally some of them are. Send Halladay and be done with it.— kmon
- It's pretty easy....if you aren't playing (Rollins) or not playing well (Utley, Werth), it doesn't matter if you're an 'All-Star' player, you just don't deserve to go that particular year. It's unfortunate but at the same time our guys probably need the break off this year to get ready for the rest of the season.— PhillySubsMac
- They should. Werth has been completely lost the past 19 games. I think he was counting his free agent money too soon. Rollins has not played and he should not be there just because of his name.— SlinkTMP
- Get rid of every one of the "All-Star" games.... for every sport. There's no need for any of them.— scootch
- [boasocal... Rollins deserves it and should be there.] Are you insane?— jman
