Joey Votto is clearly running away with the NL’s first base All Star position. So much so, that I think it’s easy to lose perspective. Here’s a couple facts to help increase the resolution on this number:

• Since last week’s tally, Votto has received over 1.3 million votes. The second-place vote getter has only 1.5 million votes for the entirety of the voting.
• Votto has about 3 times as many votes as the second-lace finisher, but he also has more votes than 2nd, 3rd, and 4th combined.
• If you were to try to single-handedly pull Lance Berkman into first place, it would take you 342 days of submitting one vote every 10 seconds, with no breaks for Skyline chili or sleeping.

So, I think Votto’s safe.

Brandon Phillips, on the other hand, is still lagging. He’s less than a million votes behind, but voting ends midnight Thursday. He really does deserve it, but with Tony LaRussa managing the NL team this year, he’s not likely to get in unless folks start putting in some serious clicking.

Have you done your clicking yet? All you have to do is go to MLB.com to fill out your ballot. You can vote 25 times per email address, and if you’re like me, you’ve got several email addresses, including one or two you would even give to MLB.

Tallies as of June 26, 2012:

FIRST BASE

• Joey Votto, Reds: 4,475,180
• Lance Berkman, Cardinals: 1,516,737
• Freddie Freeman, Braves: 1,462,586
• Brandon Belt, Giants: 1,291,982
• Ryan Howard, Phillies: 873,526

SECOND BASE

• Dan Uggla, Braves: 2,641,361
• Brandon Phillips, Reds: 1,870,966
• Jose Altuve, Astros: 1,479,652
• Rickie Weeks, Brewers: 1,202,051
• Omar Infante, Marlins: 1,093,119

OUTFIELD

• Matt Kemp, Dodgers: 4,118,524
• Carlos Beltran, Cardinals: 3,717,483
• Ryan Braun, Brewers: 3,168,617
• Melky Cabrera, Giants: 3,045,884
• Andre Ethier, Dodgers: 1,948,973
• Matt Holliday, Cardinals: 1,880,342
• Andrew McCutchen, Pirates: 1,685,543
• Angel Pagan, Giants: 1,613,948
• Hunter Pence, Phillies: 1,610,283
• Michael Bourn, Braves: 1,553,285
• Carlos Gonzalez, Rockies: 1,506,613
• Shane Victorino, Phillies: 1,365,023
• Jason Heyward, Braves: 1,322,217
• Jay Bruce, Reds: 1,195,031
• Martin Prado, Braves: 1,142,946

To see the tallies for the other positions, you can go to this story on MLB.com and scroll all the way to the bottom.

It’s All-Star vote status report day: my favorite days in June!

Joey Votto increased his lead over the second-place vote getter in the first base field. The person he’s beating has changed, though. Freddie Freeman of the Braves has overtaken Lance Berkman of the Cardinals for second place. But whereas Votto had 2.47 times as many votes as Berkman last Tuesday, he has 2.64 times as many votes as Freeman today.

Just more gaudy numbers for Votto.

Meanwhile, Brandon Phillips has finally gotten past the 1,000,000 votes mark, but he’s lost ground on first place Dan Uggla. I don’t know if there’s much hope for this race. Uggla has been a Reds killer for as long as I can remember. Phillips really is a rock star, though. He deserves a better showing.

In the outfield, Jay Bruce has fallen yet again. Fall any further, and he won’t be on the list anymore. Yipes.

You can make a difference for guys like Phillips and Bruce. All you have to do is cast your All-Star votes on MLB.com. It’s free, but the difference you make for one second baseman is all the difference in the world. Plus, maybe we can get Votto over 10,000,000.

Tallies as of June 19, 2012:

FIRST BASE

• Joey Votto, Reds: 3,151,032
• Freddie Freeman, Braves: 1,193,455
• Lance Berkman, Cardinals: 1,159,418
• Brandon Belt, Giants: 907,739
• Ryan Howard, Phillies: 677,368

SECOND BASE

• Dan Uggla, Braves: 2,054,920
• Brandon Phillips, Reds: 1,272,389
• Jose Altuve, Astros: 1,074,993
• Omar Infante, Marlins: 901,970
• Rickie Weeks, Brewers: 814,263

OUTFIELD

• Matt Kemp, Dodgers: 3,322,009
• Carlos Beltran, Cardinals: 2,652,980
• Melky Cabrera, Giants: 2,144,107
• Ryan Braun, Brewers: 2,118,925
• Andre Ethier, Dodgers: 1,517,218
• Matt Holliday, Cardinals: 1,374,004
• Hunter Pence, Phillies: 1,234,428
• Michael Bourn, Braves: 1,201,215
• Angel Pagan, Giants: 1,158,500
• Andrew McCutchen, Pirates: 1,151,403
• Carlos Gonzalez, Rockies: 1,120,406
• Jason Heyward, Braves: 1,049,769
• Shane Victorino, Phillies: 1,039,970
• Martin Prado, Braves: 893,995
• Jay Bruce, Reds: 893,101

To see the tallies for the other positions, you can go to this story on MLB.com and scroll all the way to the bottom.

Major League Baseball has again released the current count of votes for the All-Star Game, and not a whole lot has changed since last week. Joey Votto is still running away with the start at first; in fact, he’s extended his lead. He’s now got 2.5 times as many votes and the second-place vote getter Lance Berkman of the Cardinals.

Frankly, that kind of sucks. Joey Votto was the best National League first baseman before and couldn’t get voted in. Now suddenly there’s a vacuum of NL 1Bers and the field is so thin the second place guy isn’t even actively playing. Votto deserves to have beaten real competition for this honor. I hope he has 10 times the number of votes of second place when this is all done.

Brandon Phillips remains in second place behind Dan Uggla of the Braves, and he’s lost a little bit of ground in that titanic struggle. Jay Bruce has lost quite a bit of ground in the outfielder contest, dropping from ninth to fourteenth.

A bright spot in the position changes this time around: Buster Posey of the Giants has overtaken that punk Yadier Molina of the Cardinals. If you haven’t cast your votes yet, why not consider Posey? Sure, it’s ideal to vote for a Red, but I think I might make an exception in this case. Surely Ryan Hanigan will understand.

You can vote up to 25 times per email address by going to the MLB website.

Tallies as of June 12, 2012:

FIRST BASE

• Joey Votto, Reds: 2,108,725
• Lance Berkman, Cardinals: 851,373
• Freddie Freeman, Braves: 828,759
• Brandon Belt, Giants: 563,708
• Bryan LaHair, Cubs: 514,809

SECOND BASE

• Dan Uggla, Braves: 1,341,088
• Brandon Phillips, Reds: 885,250
• Omar Infante, Marlins: 737,715
• Jose Altuve, Astros: 700,640
• Rickie Weeks, Brewers: 642,184

CATCHER

• Buster Posey, Giants: 1,713,839
• Yadier Molina, Cardinals: 1,576,199
• Carlos Ruiz, Phillies: 1,191,194
• Brian McCann, Braves: 1,012,743
• Jonathan Lucroy, Brewers: 588,710

OUTFIELD

• Matt Kemp, Dodgers: 2,589,464
• Carlos Beltran, Cardinals: 1,782,831
• Ryan Braun, Brewers: 1,553,356
• Melky Cabrera, Giants: 1,357,461
• Andre Ethier, Dodgers: 1,142,312
• Matt Holliday, Cardinals: 951,652
• Hunter Pence, Phillies: 861,555
• Michael Bourn, Braves: 768,049
• Shane Victorino, Phillies: 733,310
• Carlos Gonzalez, Rockies: 728,903
• Andrew McCutchen, Pirates: 728,522
• Angel Pagan, Giants: 722,820
• Jason Heyward, Braves: 717,121
• Jay Bruce, Reds: 655,098
• Martin Prado, Braves: 560,943

To see the tallies for the other positions, you can go to this story on MLB.com and scroll all the way to the bottom.

Early tallies are out for the National League All-Star voting, and it shouldn’t be any surprise that Joey Votto is at the top of the heap. Even if there weren’t a sudden vacuum of first basemen in the NL, Votto blow ‘em all out of the water anyway.

Brandon Phillips, though also obviously the best in the NL at his position, is behind Dan Uggla. Surely we can do something about that. Jay Bruce has the disadvantage of being lumped in the all-encompassing “outfield” category, but he still ought to be higher than ninth.

Add your voice! You can vote up to 25 times per email address by going to the MLB website. And don’t forget to stuff the ballot boxes when you go to the park.

Tallies as of June 5, 2012:

FIRST BASE

• Joey Votto, Reds: 1,314,516
• Lance Berkman, Cardinals: 634,473
• Freddie Freeman, Braves: 576,255
• Bryan LaHair, Cubs: 391,497
• Adam LaRoche, Nationals: 331,772

SECOND BASE

• Dan Uggla, Braves: 872,136
• Brandon Phillips, Reds: 586,835
• Omar Infante, Marlins: 512,049
• Rickie Weeks, Brewers: 512,021
• Jose Altuve, Astros: 472,292

OUTFIELDERS

• Matt Kemp, Dodgers: 1,952,910
• Carlos Beltran, Cardinals: 1,212,030
• Ryan Braun, Brewers: 1,112,971
• Andre Ethier, Dodgers: 827,262
• Melky Cabrera, Giants: 714,642
• Matt Holliday, Cardinals: 667,544
• Jason Heyward, Braves: 515,340
• Michael Bourn, Braves: 498,070
• Jay Bruce, Reds: 460,853
• Andrew McCutchen, Pirates: 457,223
• Hunter Pence, Phillies: 446,460
• Corey Hart, Brewers: 417,929
• Carlos Gonzalez, Rockies: 386,860
• Jon Jay, Cardinals: 373,833
• Shane Victorino, Phillies: 373,034

To see the tallies for the other positions, you can go to this story on MLB.com and scroll all the way to the bottom.

With two weeks remaining of All-Star voting, only he of the spectacular plays and active Twitter life, Brandon Phillips is leading the voting in his position. Now, while Phillips is all manner of spectacular, but this line-up ought to be loaded with deserving Reds starters. Consider Joey Votto; consider Jay Bruce; hell, consider Paul Janish. Credit where credit is due.

Of course, there is the part of me that wants Pujols to win to drive up his price for whatever sucker team signs him next season, especially since that will probably be the Cardinals.

But that’s consolation prize talk. There are still 2 weeks of voting to send our boys to the game properly. So get out there and vote! Your 25 ballots per email address do make a difference.