San Francisco Giants Lee Jung-hoo (27)'s dream of 'major league all-star' has disappeared like a mirage.
There is no need to discuss the reliability of the results and the fairness of the process. It's all because Lee Jung-hoo didn't do well. The first month of the season, which burned fiercely, has been dull since early May. In the end, the hitting slump continued for nearly 50 days, completely losing the All-Star competitiveness. Now, let alone an All-Star, I am gradually concerned about going to the minor leagues.
The Major League Baseball (MLB) secretariat announced the results of the first fan vote for the 2025 MLB All-Star Game on the 27th (Korea time). In the first round of voting, voting will be held for each position in the two major leagues (AL, NL). In each of the two major leagues, the first-place vote-getters are immediately selected as All-Stars, and the first-round vote winners except these two are selected as All-Stars after the second round of voting.
Lee Jung-hoo, who marks his second year in MLB this year, is the only Korean major leaguer to be among the first candidates (45) for the National League All-Star outfielder category. A total of six people will be selected in the first round of voting in the outfield section, and until the end of April, expectations have grown that Lee Jung-hoo will be in the top six outfielders. Until April, he had a batting average of well over .300 and was active as a new icon for San Francisco. His first All-Star appearance seemed to be coming true.
However, for Lee Jung-hoo, May was 'Cruel Month'. In May, the batting became increasingly dull, and finally, on May 10, he went 0 for 4 against Minnesota, collapsing the batting average of 300. Since then, Lee Jung-hoo's batting average has continued to fall to the right. In the end, even 250 percent has recently become a precarious situation.
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| Lee Jung-hoo of the San Francisco Giants has not recovered his hitting sense even in June. ImagesYonhap News |
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Lee Jung-hoo started in the fifth center field at a home game against the Miami Marlins at Oracle Park in San Francisco on the 27th and recorded one hit (triple) from four times at bat, barely maintaining a batting average of 0.252 for the season.
As the hitting slump has been prolonged, the interest of local fans in the U.S., which was focused on Lee Jung-hoo, has also rapidly cooled. And the results were reflected in the All-Star vote.
Lee Jung-hoo's elimination from the All-Star was already predicted in the interim tally of the first All-Star fan vote announced on the 18th. Here, Lee Jung-hoo did not even make the top 20 out of the 45 candidates for the NL outfielder category. In fact, the All-Star competition ended as a result of this.
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| Lee Jung-hoo, who is sprinting after hitting a two-run triple in the top of the fourth inning against the Dodgers on the 16th (Korea time). ImagesYonhap News |
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At that time, Ronald Acuña Jr. (Atlanta Braves) was ranked sixth, the second round of voting in the NL outfielder category. He received 596,363 votes. And 20th place was Cincinnati Reds Austin Hayes with 128,220 votes. The number of votes for Lee Jung-hoo, who did not make the top 20, has not been announced, but considering that he is below Hayes, it should be considered to be around 100,000 no matter how generous he is. By this time, there was already a gap of almost 500,000 votes from sixth place. It was an almost impossible gap to turn the tables for nine days.
In the end, Lee Jung-hoo did not record a significant ranking in the final results of the first vote. It is at a level where even the name is not mentioned at all.
In the NL outfield category, Pete Crow Armstrong (Chicago Cubs), Teoscar Hernandez (LA Dodgers), Acuña Jr. and Kyle Tucker (Chicago Cubs), Andy Pazs (LA Dodgers) and Juan Soto (New York Mets) advanced to the second round of voting. It would have been worth competing with if it were 'Lee Jung-hoo in April', but these are high walls that Lee Jung-hoo can't handle.
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Meanwhile, the most voted for the first round was Aaron Judge, the New York Yankees' leading hitter. Judge won 4,012,983 votes to rank No. 1 in the AL and No. 1 in the MLB overall, and confirmed his seventh career All-Star selection for the fifth consecutive year. Shohei Ohtani (LA Dodgers) received 3,967,668 votes in the second place overall and the first place in the NL. It's a mere difference of less than 50,000 votes from Judge. Ohtani is also the fifth consecutive All-Star.
The second round of voting will be held from July 1 to 3, and the final All-Star list will be announced on the 7th after team voting and secretariat selection. The All-Star Game will be held at Truist Park in Atlanta on the 16th, and the Home Run Derby will be held on the 15th.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
