Omar Infante’s surge into lead of All-Star voting has many people outraged
Not every baseball fan in the country knows that Omar Infante had just one hit last week. But most are aware that Infante is having a tough second season with the Royals.
So there was a lot of disgust and anger when the latest All-Star Game vote totals were released on Monday and Infante had passed Houston’s Jose Altuve for first place among AL second basemen.
These stats are, uh, better than the guy hitting .204. #VoteKip NOW to catch Infante/Altuve! http://t.co/1r0XTnkOEH pic.twitter.com/HN6XZqSuFj
— #VoteKip #VoteTribe (@Indians) June 15, 2015
If Omar Infante starts in the All Star Game I will have a personal vendetta against every damned Royals fan for the rest of the year #beware
— Dabbi Gibson (@sgibbles) June 15, 2015Players and coaches should be the ones to vote for the All Star Game. The fact that Omar Infante leads in voting for 2B is ridiculous.
— Reece Green (@reecelion) June 15, 2015Omar Infante with an OPS+ of 37 is going to start the all star game because Royals fans live in their moms basement voting all day
— Detroit Sports (@_DetroitPride) June 15, 2015Here are the leaders in BA among 2B in the AL. Omar Infante is 13 out of 15. This is ridiculous. pic.twitter.com/UjpknaQuYg
— Sam Fritz (1) (@RedSox730) June 15, 2015@MLBMeme Omar Infante. Is this a joke.
— Doran Grieshaber (@D_Grieshaber) June 15, 2015Omar Infante, in addition to having no home runs and no steals, has just three walks. THREE!! There's literally nothing he's doing well!
— Dan Rozenson (@SixToolPlayer) June 15, 2015@AquaX107 Omar Infante has 17 RBI and he's in the all star game. Smh
— Mitch (Yanks 34-28) (@mitchmaster244) June 15, 2015Have the BEST player starting, REGARDLESS off his name. If Omar Infante was better than any other 2B then have him start. But he's not.
— Blake Forshee (@ForsheeSports) June 15, 2015Omar Infante is leading the votes at 2nd over Altuve? #ASGWorthy Infante is hitting .204, yeah, he's definitely an all-star....NOT
— Taylor Greenback (@TGreenback13) June 15, 2015#MLB All-Star voting is a joke. Omar Infante is not #ASGWorthy by any stretch of the imagination. Royals fans are just too into this
— Summer Citrus Sean (@SeanQuarles) June 15, 2015I'm not sure we appreciate the awful baseball player that is Omar Infante. He has a .496 OPS(!) and a 30 wRC+ in 197 PA.
— David Shemie (@dshemie8) June 15, 2015Everyone who voted Omar Infante into the All Star Game should be ashamed of themselves.
— The Pratt (@The_Pratt) June 15, 2015Let me rephrase - The only thing worse than Omar Infante starting the all star game would be Omar Infante starting the all star game.
— Alex Hernandez (@alexh) June 15, 2015@EmotionalTigers I really like Omar. As a person. But this is getting idiotic. Rob Manfred better do something.
— Kori Elizabeth (@iroktheatre) June 15, 2015If you voted for Omar Infante, that doesn't make you a good fan or whatever. It makes you... Well, ignorant.
— Brandon Rust (@BrandoMRust) June 15, 2015I can't see how a true Royals/baseball fan would #VoteRoyals. It does nothing but likely hurt the team you so-called "support."
— J-Boogie (@JBoogieDown) June 15, 2015To reach Pete Grathoff, call 816-234-4330 or send email to pgrathoff@kcstar.com. Follow him on Twitter: @pgrathoff.
This story was originally published June 15, 2015 at 3:07 PM.