Kansas City Royals not getting many votes in 2018 All-Star voting

The Kansas City Royals aren’t good and that, my friends, means this year’s All-Star game probably won’t see any members of the boys in blue getting voted into the big game.

Remember in the summer of 2015 when Kansas City Royals fans banded together to get as many players of their favorite baseball team into the All-Star Game? Remember Vote Omar? Remember that? Remember the good times?

This summer is not like that and for good reason. You see, the Royals are a bad baseball team, one of the worst in the league. The only people watching the Royals/Reds series are diehard fans of either team, and even those individuals would be given a pass if they skipped watching for a night or two.

The point being that this summer’s All-Star Game will probably not see any members getting voted into the game. That means no Whit Merrifield starting at second, no Mike Moustakas as the starting third baseman, and no Salvador Perez as the starting catcher.

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Perez has always been the easy Royals representative over the years, but missing the first month of the season and only batting .235 will likely result in him missing his first All-Star Game since the 2012 season. From 2013-2017, Perez was an absolute must as one of the catchers for the American League. That isn’t the case this year.

As for Moose not getting voted in, he has tough competition at third. Between Jose Ramirez, Miguel Andujar, Alex Bregman, and Adrian Beltre (those ahead of Moustakas at the moment), it’ll be tough for the Royals third baseman to jump to the top of that list. His other two All-Star appearances have been thanks to the fan vote in which Royals fans voted their butts off to get their guy into the All-Star Game.

It’s not difficult to blame the fans for not voting this year. The Royals are bad and the offense certainly hasn’t set the world on fire. The ones who are good play at positions where there are simply players better than them.

Fortunately, the Royals will have an easy representative this year unlike the Mark Redman days of yesteryear. Kelvin Herrera is an unquestioned All-Star at this point of the season (assuming nothing changes over the next few weeks), posting an ERA of 1.05 and 14 saves. I’d say he’s All-Star caliber.

Jakob Junis has a slim chance of making it, but with his ERA over four at the moment, that’s not too likely. The Royals had Jason Vargas make it to the summer classic last year and he was the first starting pitcher to see that honor since Zack Greinke in 2009.

Each team has to have a representative and Herrera is the easy pick there. Perhaps Royals fans will start to support their guys like that 2015 season, but nobody would blame them if they either didn’t vote or voted for actual All-Stars.

Hey, but fortunately the Red Sox and Yankees are stuffing the ballot box this year! Yay!

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