Tigers' update on All-Star voting will have Detroit ready to riot against the Blue Jays

Tigers fans, if you thought you were mad after the first All-Star voting update dropped, you've got another think coming.

In that initial update, Riley Greene was fifth place in American League outfield voting, which would've gotten him into the second round, but Kevin McGonigle was in third place behind Bobby Witt Jr. and Andrés Giménez at shortstop, and Dillon Dingler was in fourth behind Shea Langeliers, Alejandro Kirk, and Adley Rutschman at catcher.

We can all grudgingly admit that McGonigle coming in behind Witt made sense. Dingler behind Langeliers was at least somewhat acceptable. But Giménez? Kirk?

The second update only added insult to injury. Greene fell out of the top six, McGonigle is trailing Giménez by over 400,000 votes, and Dingler is in third place but trailing Kirk by a little over 350,000 votes.

It's clear what's going on here. Even though the Blue Jays are hardly playing better baseball than the Tigers — Toronto is .500 and third place in the AL East — they have the entire country of Canada behind them, and the entire country of Canada is still upset that they lost the World Series.

Second All-Star voting update is bad news for Tigers' best three players

Blue Jays fans are clearly trying to reward their players for what they did in last year's postseason, as if that has any right to be factored in at all. Why else would Ernie Clement, of all players, be the second most-voted-for player, and one of just two to get more than two million votes? (We'll give you one guess as to who the other guy is.)

Clement somehow turned into a postseason god in 2025, hitting .411 with a .978 OPS in 18 games. We'll allow that he's been pretty good this season (.293/.753), but for him to have over two million votes?

An All-Star nod shouldn't be a consolation prize for what players did in the previous season — maybe especially when the players didn't actually even finish the job. Giménez is a great defender, but he's worth 0.6 bWAR to McGonigle's 4.2. Kirk's case is even worse. He just came off of the injured on June 12 and is hitting .205/.583 since returning. Dingler has become one of the most crucial pieces of the Tigers' roster on both sides of the ball.

It looks like it's going to be up to the player ballot to get McGonigle, Dingler, and probably even Greene the nods they deserve, but the way the fan vote has shaken out is still a travesty.

Phase 1 voting closes on June 25, but vote for McGonigle, Dingler, and Greene while you still can anyway.

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