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J.D.'s quietly strong year not lost on Ausmus

That would be J.D. Martinez, who entered Thursday -- the final day of voting via the 2015 Esurance MLB All-Star Game Ballot -- with the fourth-best on-base plus slugging percentage of any American League outfielder. He was batting .281/.335/.538 with 20 home runs, tied for third in the AL, but as of the most recent voting update, Martinez was ninth among AL outfielders with 3,145,200 votes.

"When he got here, he started hitting homers, and he hasn't stopped," Ausmus said of Martinez on Thursday. "The power to right-center -- it makes a different sound, and it travels as far as just about anybody in the game.