I thought about doing a nice, indepth analysis with spreadsheets and stuff on who’s gaining on who and what not but MLB.com has beaten me to the punch. Not only do they provide the current voting, but some really nice analysis on the current trends in the voting.
In the American League, Alex Rodriguez is the first AL player to top a million votes. The two closest races are at second base (Robinson Cano barely leads Placido Polanco) and catcher (Ivan Rodriguez has a 30,000 vote lead over the injured Joe Mauer). Magglio Ordonez also made a push and he’s now fifth amongst outfielders so the Tigers are making a good showing. Heck, even Sean Casey is fifth at first base.
In the National League, the Mets have four players leading at their positions and the injured Carlos Beltran leads all NL hitters. The closest race here is in the outfield. Barry Bonds has just a 3-4k lead over fourth place Alfonso Soriano and less then 65,000 votes seperate second place Ken Griffy, Jr. and Andruw Jones.
