Finalists announced for 2025 PRO SPIRIT MLB All-Star Ballot

By | June 26, 2025

Aaron Judge of the New York Yankees Leads Majors in Voting for Second Consecutive Season to Claim Starting Outfield Assignment in American League;
Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers to Start for National League at Designated Hitter after Leading League in Voting;
Phase 2 Window to Vote for Finalists Begins on Monday at 12:00 p.m. (ET);
ESPN to Unveil Starters on Wednesday, July 2nd; Full Rosters on Sunday, July 6th

Finalists for the 2025 PRO SPIRIT MLB All-Star Ballot were announced this evening on MLB Network. Aaron Judge of the New York Yankees and Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers will bypass the second phase of voting after leading their respective leagues in voting during Phase 1 and earning automatic starting assignments at the 2025 All-Star Game presented by Mastercard.

The second phase of voting, which begins on Monday, June 30th at 12:00 p.m. (ET), features the top two vote-getters at each position (and the top six outfielders in the NL; next four outfielders in the AL after Judge) in each League based on vote totals from Phase 1, which ran from June 4th-26th.

Phase 2 voting, which is available exclusively online and via mobile devices at MLB.com/vote, all 30 Club web sites, the MLB App and the MLB Ballpark App, will give fans the opportunity to vote among the finalists at each position during a window that concludes at 12:00 p.m. (ET) on Wednesday, July 2nd. Later that night, the winners will be announced on ESPN at 7:00 p.m. (ET) during the MLB All-Star Starters Reveal Show presented by PRO SPIRIT. During this second phase of voting, in which fans can vote once per day on MLB platforms, vote totals will reset (i.e., vote totals from Phase 1 do not carry over) and the winner at each position (including three outfielders in the NL; and two remaining outfielders in the AL) will be named a starting position player for the 2025 Midsummer Classic.

Judge led all Major Leaguers with 4,012,983 total votes, pacing the Majors in voting for a second consecutive season and for the third time in his career after also doing so in his AL MVP-winning 2022 season. The 33-year-old, who leads the Majors with a .361 batting average and ranks second with 28 home runs, becomes just the fourth player since fan balloting returned in 1970 to lead the Majors in voting on at least three occasions. The only other players to accomplish the feat include Hall of Famers Ken Griffey Jr. (5) and Rod Carew (4), and 2025 Hall of Fame Inductee Ichiro Suzuki (3). Judge is now a seven-time All-Star having won fan elections for each of his All-Star assignments, which now includes the last five consecutive seasons. Judge becomes just the third Yankees player ever with at least seven fan elections, joining Hall of Famers Derek Jeter (9) and Dave Winfield (7).

Ohtani paced all National League players and ranked second across the Majors behind Judge with 3,967,668 votes. The three-time MVP claims his fifth career All-Star selection and will make his fifth consecutive fan-elected start at the Midsummer Classic as a designated hitter (2021-23 in the AL; 2024-25 in the NL). The two-way star had already been the first player ever to win as many as four straight fan elections at the position. Ohtani, who led AL players in balloting for the 2023 Midsummer Classic, is now the first player since Hall of Famer Ken Griffey Jr. to lead both the AL and NL in voting during a season (Griffey led the AL in voting with Seattle on five occasions before leading the NL in 2007 as a member of the Cincinnati Reds). The Dodgers have now claimed the starting designated hitter spot in the NL lineup in three straight seasons as Ohtani’s back-to-back starts follow the fan-elected start by J.D. Martinez in 2023.

American League Finalists

(With Phase 1 Vote Totals)

Catcher

First Base

Second Base

Third Base

Shortstop

Designated Hitter

Outfield

National League Finalists

(With Phase 1 Vote Totals)

Catcher

First Base

Second Base

Third Base

Shortstop

Outfield

Overall, 16 Major League Clubs have advanced players from Phase 1, with the Dodgers advancing a Major League-best eight players and the Tigers and Yankees advancing an AL-high three players each. Including Judge and Ohtani, 12 of the 34 players (35.3%) moving on from Phase 1 are internationally born, spanning seven different countries and territories outside of the 50 United States.

The NL All-Star Team, which will be managed by Dave Roberts of the defending World Series Champion Dodgers, and the AL All-Star Team, led by Aaron Boone of the defending AL Champion Yankees, will each have nine elected starters via the fan balloting program. The pitchers and reserves for both squads – totaling 23 for each side – will be determined through a combination of “Player Ballot” choices and selections made by the Commissioner’s Office. The balance of the All-Star rosters will be announced during the MLB All-Star Selection Show presented by PRO SPIRIT on Sunday, July 6th at 5:00 p.m. (ET) on ESPN.

Like it did in Phase 1, the 2025 MLB All-Star Ballot will offer audio CAPTCHA functionality for visually impaired fans. Spanish-language ballots are also available to fans via MLB.com/vota.

Fans will once again have the opportunity to participate in the official voting for the Ted Williams All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award presented by Chevrolet. During the Midsummer Classic, fans can vote exclusively at MLB.com and the 30 Club sites – online or via their mobile devices – with the 2025 All-Star Game MLB.com MVP Vote presented by Chevrolet, and their collective voice will represent 20 percent of the official vote determining this year’s recipient of the Arch Ward Trophy.

MLB All-Star Week includes the MLB All-Star Game presented by Mastercard (July 15th); Gatorade All-Star Workout Day featuring the T-Mobile Home Run Derby (July 14th); All-Star Saturday featuring the All-Star Futures Game and the All-Star Celebrity Softball Game presented by Geico (July 12th); the MLB Draft presented by Nike (July 13th-14th); the HBCU Swingman Classic presented by T-Mobile (July 11th); and Capital One All-Star Village (July 12th-15th). The 95th Midsummer Classic will be televised nationally by FOX Sports; in Canada by Rogers Sportsnet and TDA Sports; and worldwide by partners in more than 200 countries. FOX Deportes will provide Spanish language coverage in the United States. ESPN Radio will provide exclusive national radio coverage of the All-Star Game, while Univision will provide Spanish language coverage on radio. MLB Network and MLB.com will also provide comprehensive All-Star Week coverage. For more information about MLB All-Star Week, including ticket information and updates, please visit allstargame.com and follow @MLB on social media.

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