(runs into the room out of breath)
The vote tally... the All-Star... vote tally... is here!
Well, it turns out the rest of the country really does get it when it comes to Brandon Crawford. I feared the emergence of Corey Seager a few years back meant the end of Crawford’s reign as the best shortstop in the National League and he’d fall into some odd abyss of obscurity, but his 2018 performance has been so far and away fantastic that the non-Seager shortstops aren’t getting nearly as much consideration by the fans at large; that’s how I read the vote totals, anyway.