The Royals have eight players leading their respective position in All-Star balloting and the baseball world is not happy about it. Here are some of the reactions.
MLB has looked into the sitution and found nothing untoward. The hope is that Royals fans are just outworking everyone else, and that may be the case. The belief for now is that a bunch of dummy emails or certainly something else more complex that isn't behind this.
The next question becomes: Can anything be done about it? Well, there seems to be no movement for commissioner Rob Manfred to rewrite the lineup, as then-commissioner Ford Frick did in 1957, when over-enthusiastic Reds fans stuffed All-Star ballot boxes (in those days, they did it the hard way, actually stuffing real boxes with paper ballots).