Every week, Royals manager Ned Yost asks catching coach Pedro Grifol to provide a list of the updated fan voting totals for the All-Star Game. This week, Yost sought to make sure that Salvador Perez was still leading all American League catchers, and as he digested the numbers, he noticed that Eric Hosmer had surged in the competition at first base, pulling to within 25,000 votes of Oakland’s Yonder Alonso, who was first, and Detroit’s Miguel Cabrera.
The trends intrigued him. So as he began his pregame radio show with broadcaster Ryan Lefebvre on Wednesday in San Francisco, Yost hijacked the segment and, unprompted, campaigned for Royals fans to vote for Hosmer.