Major League Baseball announced the starting lineups for the 2025 All-Star Game this evening. The starting lineups are determined by fan vote. Starting pitchers and reserves, which are determined by a combination of player vote and the league office, will be announced on Sunday evening. Each team will eventually get at least one All-Star. 13 teams had at least one starter. The Dodgers and Tigers — the respective league leaders — were in front with three selections apiece.
The game will be played at Atlanta’s Truist Park on July 15.
American League
- Catcher: Cal Raleigh, Mariners (1st selection)
- First base: Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Blue Jays (5th selection)
- Second base: Gleyber Torres, Tigers (3rd selection)
- Third base: José Ramírez, Guardians (7th selection)
- Shortstop: Jacob Wilson, Athletics (1st selection)
- Outfield: Aaron Judge, Yankees (7th selection)
- Outfield: Riley Greene, Tigers (2nd selection)
- Outfield: Javier Báez, Tigers (3rd selection)
- Designated hitter: Ryan O’Hearn, Orioles (1st selection)
National League
- Catcher: Will Smith, Dodgers (3rd selection)
- First base: Freddie Freeman, Dodgers (9th selection)
- Second base: Ketel Marte, Diamondbacks (3rd selection)
- Third base: Manny Machado, Padres (7th selection)
- Shortstop: Francisco Lindor, Mets (5th selection)
- Outfield: Ronald Acuña Jr., Braves (5th selection)
- Outfield: Pete Crow-Armstrong, Cubs (1st selection)
- Outfield: Kyle Tucker, Cubs (4th selection)
- Designated hitter: Shohei Ohtani, Dodgers (5th selection)
Good for my boy O’Hearn what a wild ride he’s had to get to this point.
“MLB Announces 2025 All-Star Starting Hitters”
So MLBTR.
All position players are to be seen and judged on their hitting….particularly their hitting statistics. That’s all that matters.
Team wins don’t matter.
There are so many crummy teams in MLB this year – particularly in the AL. Games are impossible to watch anymore.
The analytic/statistic virus has affected almost all MLB FO’s. Just a few teams still play baseball. It’s rotisserie league for real.
The players just care about pushing their brand. The FO’s just care about making every ballpark into Disneyland.
No one cares about the fans. No one.
Hey listen, I see the point you’re making here and I get it. In my opinion the all star game is about rewarding outstanding play for the players (whether we agree with some of the fan voting or not) and allowing the fans to see all of the best players (hopefully) in one spot jumbled together across two teams just to see what happens. Do I think fans should have a say in said voting process? No, not really. We have a tendency to play favorites hence the fan label. But as long as its a glorified scrimmage and some arguably deserving folks are getting the nod. I wont complain about what is essentially a for fan experience. Mainly I only tune in for the homerun derby but thats just me. Long story short in my opinion, the fans are voting for all of the position/dh players yes? Pitching gets determined by the players and the commissioners office correct? So if you’re getting the absolute best pitchers to go against, better choose the best damn hitters you can find, defense be damned in a scrimmage lol.
No, team wins should not matter at all. Why should a player be punished for being stuck on a bad team? This is not basketball, where one superstar can make a team a contender.
Lindor over Elly and Turner is certainly a choice.
I can understand Lindor over Turner, but it should have been De la Cruz. But that’s what you get when the fans decide. There’s far more Mets; fans that Reds’ fans.
Bingo.
The National League certainly has some good shortstops with Lindor, Turner, De La Cruz, and Abrams. No doubt some others, as well, like Betts when he plays the position.
SS is the only position Mookie Betts has played this season
That still just blows my mind, maybe even more than Ohtani being elite at pitching and hitting.
An MVP, First-ballot tracking, championship right fielder is willing and ABLE to play shortstop on the best team in baseball as he’s approaching his mid-30’s.
Like we’ve seen power hitting corner outfields being able to play first base and sometimes third, but for that level of player to just go out and play shortstop is insane.
Every year people say someone over Lindor and by the end of the year Lindor is the best shortstop in the NL and it’s not usually close.
You said it yourself, end of the year. We’re going off first half stats to which Lindor is currently inferior to de la Cruz and Turner.
de la Cruz – 3.2 WAR. Turner – 2.9 WAR. Lindor – 2.8 WAR. Stop acting like this is the crime of the century. The difference between them all is negligible. Lindor is a fine choice.
Oh no, here comes the WAR worshippers to whitewash all the other relevant stats…
More like a joke. But the large markets always get their way.
Baez over about 25 other AL outfielders is pretty wild if you ask me. Who in the office pool had Javy Baez 2025 All Star?
One of the worst contracts in recent history!
Copper hill – Not so fast… that contract is still in the midst and could be redeemed very quickly in the postseason. Baez was injured and now he’s not and it’s pretty obvious he didn’t just forget how to play.
@TBV I 100% agree
I guess I’m confused. He’s hitting well, playing gold glove defense on a division leader, and is comeback player of the year. Seems he’s pretty deserving?
If it’s starting CF for the AL team, Buxton and J-Rod have had a better numbers in the box.
It’s more about ballot stuffing than who’s having the best season at a given position.
Both are on miserable teams. Baez is playing a new position. It’s an exhibition game and he’s a great story. If he was having an awful year it wouldn’t even be a conversation
J-Rod is barely over replacement level. When will you folks realize J-Rod isn’t as good as you think he is?
I can understand saying J-Rod’s bat is overrated, but if we’re going to reference replacement level … he’s 3rd in the league in fWAR among center fielders, 2nd in the league by bWAR. Barely above replacement level would be Myles Straw
What are you talking about? Julio Rodriguez has a 3.6 WAR which leads all AL CF.
2nd in baseball in bWAR behind only PCA who is in the NL.
Tip of the cap to Gleyber Torres, he changed his approach at the plate and transformed into a different hitter. More walks than strikeouts!
He just needed a change of scenery!
Tip of the hat to Harris, the Tigers POBO, for signing Torres. I hated the move at the time, but it has worked out. Hopefully Keith will be able to handle 3B.
Baez is having his first decent season in years, but starting in CF for the AL All-Stars? Come on.
Pete – Yeah, he played a phenomenal CF for a good chunk of the season and he has been a very productive hitter playing on the best team in the league.
I’m happy for him.
Gleyber actually used the same approach in 2023 with the Yankees and saw similar success. I feel like he was pressing in 2024 for more power and thus lost that approach.
Gleyber’s problem, much like Gallo, Volpe, Jazz, etc, is very much Gleyber. Completely selling out for pull power and can’t hit anything else.
Now, could it be the influence of good coaching and accountability (Hinch) versus the coddling and “A-for-Effort” acceptance of mediocrity (Boone)? Yeah, I think that’s a part of it too.
Pull power wins games, though.
Good on Armstrong!
Betts has a higher WAR on fielding. Lindor has the better bat, this year.
And everyone really knows Betts isn’t even close to a fielder as Lindor at shortstop.
“everyone”
lol
baseballsavant.mlb.com/leaderboard/outs_above_aver…
Well tells you defensive stats are not the greatest measurement and need to be worked on. Nobody in this world would start Betts at shortstop if Lindor was on his team. You can say whatever you want but you know that it’s true.
Lindor is a great ball player.
Happy now?
He is a great player. Will probably end up a top 5 shortstop of all time. Betts is a great player. One of the best outfielders of all time.
Try to keep up with current reality.
Or maybe Betts has just been a better fielder this season.
Of course they wouldn’t but that’s like saying the New Orleans Saints wouldn’t start Taysom Hill at QB when they have Drew Brees. (Not a 1:1 comparison, but the point stands)
Lindor is a shortstop. He’s played the position his entire big league career going on 11 seasons.
Betts was drafted a second baseman, came up as second baseman, and moved to the outfield early in his career.
One is a shortstop by trade and the other is an infielder-turned outfielder-turned infielder again.
Wonderful amount of talent! Gonn be a good game.
Vlad and Acuna lol.
Who would you pick over Vlad as a 1st baseman in the American League.
Yandy Diaz.
Jonathan Aranda on the Rays
I’ll say this about Vlad, anytime you take nearly as many walks as you strike out, you have my attention. I’m trying to remember the last great player to retire with more walks than strikeouts, I know Chipper Jones (as a fellow 3rd bagger one of my faves) did, but its increasingly rare if not damn near impossible to find guys who walk more than they strikeout.
Todd Helton is a slightly more recent member of that club.
Good ole Todd “Highway to” Helton, The Toddfather, one of my favorite players and definitely my favorite Rockies guy, which is wild when you account for guys like Walker, Castilla, Galarraga and Holliday.
Barry Bonds
Its pretty crazy that over a quarter of those were intentional too.
Nothing Bonds ever did counts. That is what cheating does for you, makes everyone except the total idiots write off everything you did as just a PED user’s stats.
For me I would really agree with you, however that would also allow the MLB to profit while claiming ignorance to the fact that he used PED’s. Its one of those things that I grapple with, if you destroy the career this career or another user of PED’s had, all of his work and reputation is destroyed and discredited. But what happens to the MLB? They already profited off of said player so why should they care? And that doesn’t seem fair to me. Like if theres no actual indication that a guy used, I could understand, but when theres rumors, speculation, testimony etc. and you sit there and do nothing about it, then everyone deserves to be brought low. Not just the players.
All of his work and reputation is destroyed and discredited. That MLB paid no price for looking the other way when he cheated because it made them money is immaterial.
He was the one that chose to cheat.
No, it all counts. Most of the league were using PEDs at that time.
What are you talking about? He’s the greatest hitter of all time and was a great player before ever taking anything.
Personally I levy blame to both sides, theres plenty of wrong to go around. You can’t absolve one side or the other of wrongdoing in my opinion. I don’t regard Bonds as one of the greats personally after the discoveries post career. But I also regard the MLB as a trash organization during those periods that allowed such things to happen with no remorse or penalty to those that used. I think realistically, the way the general public probably views those times will ultimately prove to be for the best. I imagine a lot of folks in general still hold some purity for records, myself included. I.E. Hank Aaron is still the HR King. All I’m really saying is equal blame and responsibility needs to be held.
I think we can probably all agree that he would’ve been a HoF’er without any PEDs. But at the same time we can only guess at when he started using them based on visual body composition changes. It’s definitely not an easy thing to gauge when we are outside of those who are in the know.
C’MON MAN! How you going leave out Gar?
The greatest hitter of all time in the roid era and never had a link to the juice.
And better than Bonds and Helton.
baseball-reference.com/players/m/martied01.shtml
In my defense I swear Edgar Martinez was just a hit machine, no way was that guy mere flesh and blood lol.
Who fills out the rest of the team?
Player voting, the league and the managers of the teams.
James Wood should be starting over Acuna. De La Cruz should be starting over Lindor. Javi Baez bats 9th for the Tigers, I have no clue how he made the all star team
James Wood was so robbed
Is team is terrible that definitely effects voting
Baez is playing a gold glove defense, hitting damn good, and is comeback player of the year.
Whomever the fans voted for should be starting. That is the purpose of the game.
So proud of Jack Wilson’s son. I coached Jack in soccer one year in T Oaks. He was 10 or 11 years old and was the most coordinated kid by far.
A natural talent.
Thats really cool – I have a feeling this won’t be Jacob’s last all star appearance
Javy Baez getting a starting OF spot is so funny, I love it.
All of that money to Juan Soto and he’s not even all star starter.
“Generational talent.” lmao
How much would Acuña get on the open market? Tucker is about to make a killing too.
Slow start with new team/pressure. Sadie yiu see his June numbers? He’s a future HOF, no question.
*Did you*
@DarrenDreifortsContract
He never was. Decent player but not an all-star.
He’s easily an All-Star and a future Hall of Famer. Decent player, LOL!!!
Are you really stupid enough to think that fan voting determines if a player is a generational talent?
Lindor! LGM!
The dynamic between Dave Roberts and Manny will be interesting. In the battles between Dodgers and Padres Manny has been quite agressive.
Throwing the ball nearly hitting Dave in the dugout.
LOL, Manny tossed it toward the dugout and it bounced a couple times. Dave Roberts was scared.
LMAO. He tosses the ball into the dugout as he is supposed to do, 8-10 feet away from Roberts where players throw the ball hundreds of times per season and that is nearly hitting him? Ok, Only a Dodger fan.
Tigers have three starters! Midwest bias in full effect. /s
Congrats Tigers fans!
After their long rebuild and false starts, they’ve finally come out of it and have a good chance to end the regular season as the American League’s best.
And they actually have a better win percentage against out of division opponents, so it’s not like their wins can be discounted on a soft home division.
They are legit! Good days in Detroit for sure.
They are young and should be really good for long time.
They should have the starting pitcher too
And unfortunately for Gleyber he gets to be managed by Aaron Boone for another game 🙂
I wonder how many of these guys will opt out of the game. None, I hope, but that seems unlikely.
Cal Raleigh, huh? Mariners fans must have really come out in droves to vote for him. I would look into those ballots a bit more, seems sketch.
Who would you have voted for over Raleigh???
I think you need to learn sarcasm.
Is there something wrong with you?!
His name checks out.
ISOB=Mariner fan flex
He’s obviously joking.
Just like I predicted in spring training: Javy Baez starting CF in the All-Star Game . . .
Who you like in the 3rd at Saratoga on Friday, Charlie? Ahahahahahaha!
That is a claimer. Take Over and Ollie. but don’t put much on him. There are 5, maybe 6 horses entered in that race that have a legit shot of winning.
In the 8th, the Manila Stakes, Zulu Kingdom is the heavy favorite but I think his stable mate Uncatalyzed has a shot at upsetting him. I really like the jockey at that distance on grass. If you want to go with a little longer odds, Capitol Hill who is trained by Bill Mott, gets John Velasquez this race, and was stuck wide in his last race on turf at 1 3/16 mile at Keeneland and still finished 4th.
Who gets a louder cheer when the bring out the starting lineups? Freddie Freeman or Ronald Acuna Jr?
Freeman will probably be booed. Freeman should have been a lifetime Brave.
Freeman was given a nice ovation at Truist Park in May. But you’d have to be paying attention to know that.
It’s the All Star game and not a regular season game. I’m sure they will love his Dodger uniform in Atlanta for an all star game especially this season.
It’s New York fans who go in for that sort of display.
Sure, I’ve only gone to about 50 Braves home games. I’m sure you would have been ecstatic if Kershaw left the Dodgers and was an all star for a different team at Dodger stadium.
@Mets Era there is zero chance Freddie gets booed at the AS game. Zilch. It’s not NY. I’m sure if Pete had left this offseason, made the AS team and if the game was in NY he’d catch a C battery in the head. That ain’t happening in Atlanta. The uniform makes absolutely no difference. He’s on the NL team, was a WS champion with the Braves and Braves fans are smart enough to realize that. We’re perfectly fine with a younger Olson as our first baseman and we still love and appreciate Freddie.
Why do you all keep saying it’s not NY? You didn’t boo him for years? I’m sure it felt great watching him win the World Series with the Dodgers last year instead of the Braves winning it. I bet you’ll be even happier when he puts a Dodger cap on for his hall of fame ceremony.
Cynicism becomes you.
The Braves didn’t want him for some reason
Then they shouldn’t have shown him the door for a younger player
Baez makes a mockery of fan voting…
The Tigers sharing the best record in MLB has energized their fanbase. Fan voting is working as intended.
@Provost
Fan votes are mostly a joke.
OY: The game itself is as well
@SteveC
True…
The game is an exhibition for the fans. voting worked as its supposed to.
Steven Kwan?
Baez has a OPS+ of 120. Solid defense everywhere he plays. I don’t understand the hate. Maybe you don’t watch baseball?
Actually, the fan voting today is generally way better than it was years ago, despite the occasional mistakes.
Baez starting is absurd. All star game has lost all credibility for me
Really? *this* is what makes you mad?
And oh by the way…
Did you seriously have some high esteem for fan voted all star starters in the past?
There isn’t a glut of great AL OFs this year like years past. And the fans got a lot right too, like SS Wilson.
It’s not like it’s NBA-level absurdity.
Best team in each league has 3 starters in AS Game. Seems about right — and how it usually shakes out every yr.
I also disagree with Wilson starting at short
Every year Jeter was in the All Star game even with no good numbers
It’s debatable, but I wouldn’t say absurd. Gold glove defense at a new position, hitting well, and on best team in baseball.
It’s absurd when Buxton is having the year he is having. He has been much better.
It’s an exhibition. How much credibility does it need?
Jacob Wilson!
Bobby Witt Jr was robbed again. Voters need to stop using strictly BA as a voting metric.
Jacob Wilson has a 138 wRC+.
Bobby Witt Jr. has a 123 wRC+
Offensively, Wilson is far better this season.
Overall, though, Wilson has a fWAR of 2.9 to Witts 4.0.
Witt is getting a lot more steals and is better defensively and is overall a simply better player.
Jacob is in a slump, his numbers were around .360 a week or so ago
And people really need to stop getting so upset over who starts an EXHIBITION game with no real meaning other than who the fans want to see.
I hate everything about Oakland-Sacramento-Vegas, but I have 0 issue with Wilson winning out over Witt Jr. Makes up for the fact that Rooker got screwed at DH imo
Prediction:
Kyle Tucker will sign with the Yankees for $50 million more than the Cubs’ best offer.
He will be a Dodger.
He’ll sign with the Pirates.
I am not being a homer here, but Hunter Goodman of the Rockies deserves the starting gig over Will Smith. The only thing Smith has on Goodman is BA and being on a much better team. Goodman leads all NL catchers is almost every category. Hopefully he at least gets the backup job.
Javy Baez over Byron Buxton is an egregious miss
Buxton has a 3 WAR. Baez has a 2 WAR. It’s debatable sure, but it certainly isn’t egregious. Baez is playing gold glove defense at new position, on the best team in AL. It counts for something.
Is this a lifetime achievement award for Baez? His stats would be respectable for a 4th outfielder.
120ops+ and a 2.2 war is 4th OF level? Weird comment.
Good stats for sarcasta-bowl but in the real world hypothetical results aren’t what determine who wins the game.
Seriously bring back steroids
.500 teams in 1998 had better lineups than this
On a side note, Judge and Ohtani are guaranteed to start the All-Star Game as they got the most votes in their respective leagues.
No Angels? Rotflmfao
Angels have almost a full lineup of “their” own #1 Draft Picks! Not traded for or free agents..#1 Draft picks They will get theirs! They must have good scouts!
I was being sarcastic. With the injuries to Neto and Neto and Trout early we really didn’t deserve to have anyone voted as a starter. Maybe next year.
When it’s a fan vote every deserves what they get, also team success counts alot. Will’s team is the best in MLB and Colorado 30 games back.
Did any of the Braves team Doctors get any votes?
Strange that the starting CF for the AL hasn’t started a game in CF since June 1st and spent almost the entire last month playing exclusively at SS…
It’s crazy how many people are complaining about Lindor getting the start and saying it’s the big market stuffing the ballot. That is not at all a core tenant of the Mets fan base and if you look over recent years that much is clear. The Mets almost never have more than 2 players in the game and rarely have anybody starting. As a Mets fan I’m not saying we deserved a lot more I’m just saying for a large market team we have not had much representation at the game over the years.
Who’s complaining? I am a Dodger fan and I know Lindor deserves the honor.
I could argue Judge and Raleigh are the only AL players that would make the NL roster.