Hello and welcome back to FanPost Friday! The All-Star Game isn’t for another week and a half, but given that the 2022 Seattle Mariners have the largest amount of deserving All-Star candidates since 2018 or so, I’m inclined to start building up the hype a little early.
To the surprise of many, Ty France returned to the Mariners lineup yesterday from his elbow injury. As the second-highest vote-getter among AL first basemen, he is currently slotted for for a All-Star Team roster spot but will likely lose the starting spot to Vladimir Guerrero, Jr., who has the backing of literally an entire nation of baseball fans stuffing the online ballot box like an overzealous Tim Horton’s employee over-stuffing a box of Timbits.