third time's the charm! hi, Brantley fans! our boy Michael has been named an All Star for the second year in a row and is going to Nationals Park in Washington, D.C., on July 17 as an American League outfield reserve!⭐⭐⭐👏👏👏
the happy news came tonight, on July 8 during ESPN's All Star Selection Show. Mookie
Betts of the Boston Red Sox, Mike Trout of the Los Angeles Angels, and
Aaron Judge of the New York Yankees are the starting outfielders for the American League team, which we basically already knew weeks ago. as soon as the very first AL All Star ballot updates
came out, it was pretty apparent that those three would be starters.
Michael was in 4th
place on the fan ballot for the first two updates before he fell to 5th
on the third released update. then, on July 2, MLB Communications
posted one last voting update and Michael remained in 5th place. though
he'd gained 299,302 votes since June 26, he was 48,285 votes behind
George Springer of the Houston Astros and 927,972 votes behind 3rd starter
Judge. Betts held a whooping 2,025,730-vote lead on Michael, who was
only ahead of 6th place Andrew Benintendi of the Red Sox by 22,241
votes. Brant was never really in the running to start, sadly.
thankfully, Michael was selected by his peers to be an AL
All Star reserve player for the third time in his career! he's the only Indians outfielder to
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