NL No. 1 Lee Jung-hoo, No. 1 Lee Jung-hoo, I can't be treated this much...Shocking that we're out of the top 20 in the All-Star voting
Jun 17, 2025
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The Major League website MLB.com released the results of the first interim tally of the All-Star vote on the 17th (Korea time). Korean baseball fans would have found Lee Jung-hoo's name first, but there was no Lee Jung-hoo in the top nine as well as in the top 20.
Lee Jung-hoo is playing a leading role in this year's San Francisco sensation after returning from a shoulder injury. Lee Jung-hoo batted .262 (69 hits in 263 at-bats) with six home runs, 33 RBIs and an OPS of 0.759 in 67 games. What stands out is the record of long balls. Lee Jung-hoo ranks first in center field in the National League in two categories with 17 doubles and five triples. Hit and RBI rank third in most indicators.
Up to the top of the All-Star voting list, he is coldly greedy. Still, it's quite shocking not to be in the top 20. It makes me wonder if I can only be treated like this in other places.
MLB.com ranked the National League's outfield as the biggest battleground. Except for Pete Crow-Armstrong (Chicago Cubs), who received 1,126,119 votes, the margin is not that big. Crow-Armstrong, a center fielder in his third year in the big league, quickly emerged as a star with a tremendous range of defense and the power of hitting 18 home runs in 71 games. In second place was Cubs outfielder Kyle Tucker, who received 704,740 votes. Los Angeles Dodgers' Teoscar Hernandez (685,553) ranked third and New York Mets' Juan Soto (625,618 votes) ranked fourth.
MLB.com reported that 'Tucker and Soto moved from the American League to the National League this offseason, and Ronald Acuña Jr. of Atlanta returned healthy after shaking off a left knee injury. There are many young players, so the depth of the National League's outfield group in 2025 is huge' but if you look at the results of the vote, it is not much different from the ranking of the National League WAR (contribution to victory over substitute players).
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Lee Jung-hoo ranks 31st overall in the National League fielders with a total WAR of 1.9. In the National League Outfielder's Attack WAR, he is ranked 9th with 1.9 points.
Cincinnati Reds Austin Hayes, ranked 20th, had 128,220 votes. In other words, Lee Jung-hoo did not get 120,000 votes even though the WAR ranking was higher than Hayes as well as Hernandez and Soto, who were at the top of the vote.
Lee Jung-hoo is a star player who succeeded in signing a six-year contract worth $113 million (about 153.8 billion won) with San Francisco ahead of last season. While San Francisco ranks second in the National League West this year, Lee Jung-hoo is consistently considered a key player of the team. Lee Jung-hoo's popularity in the U.S. is also great, and a private fan club called 'Furigan' has been created. There is nothing to say if Lee Jung-hoo says it is a difficult performance to be among the top three National League All-Star outfielders, but the interim tally is difficult to understand.
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Reporter Kim Min-kyung rina1130@sportschosun.com
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
