Altuve is the player with the most votes

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Wilson Ramos leads Gary Sánchez in the catcher

Carlos Figueroa Ruiz.- José Altuve, Most Valuable Player of the 2017 campaign and current leader in the Major Leagues, is the favorite baseball player for the 89th edition of the All-Star Game, which will be held on July 17 in the Nationals Park of Washington.

In his sixth nomination for the mid-season classic, the Houston-based Astros waiter, who on Monday became the first gunner with a hundred hits in 2018, is trying to secure for the fourth consecutive season the position of owner the American League.

With a million 572 thousand 101 votes, Altuve beats Mookie Betts, gardener of Boston, who gathers 1,568,417 votes. Freddie Freeman, an Atlanta starter, leads the preliminary scrutiny of the National League with 1,433,140 votes.

Ramos in advantage. In the catcher of the American League, the Carabobo player Wilson Ramos, of the Tampa Rays, surpasses by nearly sixty thousand votes the New York Yankees' native Gary Sanchez. Ramos, who played as a substitute in 2016 in San Diego with the National League, totals 678,159 votes against 618,899 Sanchez votes.

Torres second. Caracas rookie Gleyber Torres, of the New York Yankees, appears as Altuve's guard among American League waiters with 574,578 votes.

Other Venezuelan players who have received votes in the American League are receiver Salvador Perez, of the Kansas City Royals, who ranks fourth with 344,915 votes; Miguel Cabrera, of the Detroit Tigers, who appears fifth among the initialists with 333,130 votes and Marwin Gonzalez of the Houston Astros, who occupies the eighth box among the outfielders with 300,694 votes.

In other positions, the players with the most votes are the Cuban initialist José Abreu (White Sox) 636,666; the third Dominican base: José Ramírez (Indians) 893,530; shortstop Dominican Manny Machado (Orioles) 671,133 and outfielders Mike Trout (Angels) 1,323,292 and Aaron Judge (Yankees) 1,061,370.