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The simmering tension between the Commissioner’s Office and the Players Association was recently expressed yet again when the union rejected what Major League Baseball believed would be a change in All-Star voting that would heighten attention for the Midsummer Classic, The Post has learned.
MLB proposed essentially a primary system and a general election for the fan voting. There would be an initial wave of voting in the standard way with a player from each team represented at the position. Then, around mid-June, there would be a cutoff and the top three vote-getters at each position would be in a runoff (starting from zero votes again) with the winner starting at that position.
The hope was that players would take to social media to push candidacies and that would excite fans to further participate and then watch the July 17 game in Washington.
The All-Star Game voting change MLB wants — and union rejected
