Red Sox Rookie Absurdly Low In MLB All-Star Voting
Major League Baseball needs to strongly reconsider its voting process for the 2025 All-Star Game.
It’s probably too late, but what the heck is going on with the polls?
USA Today’s Bob Nightengale shared the latest poll results on Monday, giving a snapshot at where players rank at each position in the American League. The Boston Red Sox are understandably low at the majority of positions, but one deserving star should not be on the outside looking in.
Carlos Narváez deserves more respect.
Narváez, 26, has received the ninth most votes (191,710) among catchers in AL — sitting behind the likes of the Mariners’ Cal Raleigh (1,901,389), Blue Jays’ Alejandro Kirk (757,659), Tigers’ Dillon Dingler (602,089) and several others. How, though? Narváez has a higher bWAR (2.3) than numbers four, five, six, seven and eight combined (2.1), and the second highest behind Raleigh (4.2).
I don’t want to sound like a homer or anything, but that’s silly.
The Red Sox only have one member of their roster currently slated to make the team — third baseman Alex Bregman (654,377). Rafael Devers would have been the lead vote getter in the AL (1,103,085) had he not been traded to the San Francisco Giants. Jarren Duran (385,931) and Wilyer Abreu (255,609) are the club’s only other vote getters who showed up in the poll.
Woof.