Jarren Duran deserves to be an All-Star. As of this writing, he’s eighth in Major League Baseball in FanGraphs WAR among hitters, sandwiched between the injured superstar Mookie Betts, whom he’ll likely soon pass, and Elly De La Cruz, the Cincinnati phenom. That’s heady company, especially when you consider Betts’s 1.6 million All-Star votes so far and De La Cruz’s nearly 600,000, putting them first and third in votes at their position.
Duran, meanwhile, isn’t even in the top nine vote-getters among American League outfielders, trailing, among others, Mike Trout, who has played 29 games; Cedric Mullins, who’s slashing .