At the start of the week, Los Angeles Angels center fielder Mike Trout was the only player not on the Kansas City Royals roster who was the leader at his position in the 2015 MLB All-Star Game voting for the American League. Now that millions of votes have been scrubbed, that is likely to change.
Bob Bowman, the CEO of MLB Advanced Media, told Jeff Passan of Yahoo Sports on Thursday that more than 60 million All-Star Game votes have been disallowed because of concerns over illegal voting practices.
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