Finalists for the 2026 MLB All-Star Ballot were announced after Phase 1 of voting concluded, and the Los Angeles Dodgers are well-represented.
Shohei Ohtani was the leading vote getter in the National League, which means he earned an automatic starting assignment at the All-Star Game as the designated hitter. Ohtani led all Major Leaguers with 3,341,257 total votes to pace the Majors in voting for the first time in his career.
In addition, the Dodgers have the potential to send six more position players to join Ohtani at the Midsummer Classic. Will Smith, Freddie Freeman, Max Muncy, Mookie Betts, Andy Pages and Teoscar Hernández all advanced to Phase 2 with a chance to start in the All-Star Game as well.
The second phase of voting, which begins on Monday, June 29, at 9:00 a.m. PT, features the top two vote-getters at each position (and the top six outfielders) in each League based on vote totals from Phase 1, which ran from June 3-25.
Phase 2 of voting, which is available exclusively online via mobile devices at MLB.com/vote, all 30 club web sites, the MLB ap and MLB Ballpark app will give fans the opportunity to vote among the finalists at each position during a window that concludes at 9:00 a.m. PT on Thursday, July 2.
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 per league) will be named a starting position player for the 2026 Midsummer Classic.
Dodgers advancing in 2026 MLB All-Star Game voting
Will Smith, catcher
An All-Star in each of the last three seasons, Smith is contending for his second consecutive fan election and could become the first Dodgers catcher to accomplish that feat since Hall of Famer Mike Piazza claimed four straight fan-elected starting assignments with Los Angeles from 1994-97.
Smith received 1,871,805 votes in the first phase, which placed him behind the Atlanta Braves’ Drake Baldwin.
Freddie Freeman, first base
The nine-time All-Star is attempting to pick up his sixth fan-elected starting assignment after winning five of the last seven fan elections (2018-21, 2023, 2025). The 2020 NL MVP was the last NL first baseman to win consecutive fan elections, doing so in three straight years with Atlanta (2018-21), and prior to that, the last to accomplish the feat was Arizona’s Paul Goldschmidt (2014-15).
Freeman is already one of only two Dodgers first basemen to win a fan election along with Steve Garvey (1974-80). Freeman received 2,666,008 votes as the leader at first base in the first round.
Max Muncy, third base
The two-time All-Star (2019, 2021) is bidding to join Ron Cey (1974-75, 1977) as the only Dodgers third baseman to win a fan election.
Muncy recieved 2,890,181 votes as the leader at third base.
Mookie Betts, shortstop
The eight-time All-Star and four-time fan-elected starter in the outfield is trying for his first fan election at shortstop. The 2018 AL MVP would join Trea Turner (2022) and Bill Russell (1980) as the only Dodgers shortstops to receive a fan election.
Betts tallied 1,762,343 votes, placing him behind CJ Abrams of the Washington Nationals.
Andy Pages & Teoscar Hernández, outfield
Pages is seeking his first career trip to the Midsummer Classic. Along with Hernández, they are trying to become the first pair of Dodgers outfielders to win fan elections in the same season.
One of them advancing would also give the Dodgers a fan-elected starting outfielder for the fifth time in the last eight All-Star Games (Matt Kemp, 2018; Cody Bellinger, 2019; and Mookie Betts, 2022-23).
Additionally, the Dodgers duo are trying to give the NL starting outfield teammates for a third consecutive year following San Diego’s Jurickson Profar and Fernando Tatis Jr. in 2024 and Chicago’s Pete Crow-Armstrong and Kyle Tucker in 2025.
Hernández is seeking his second fan election and first in the NL after earning the fan-elected start for the AL in 2021.
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