{"id":3530,"date":"2013-07-11T19:41:11","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T23:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=3530"},"modified":"2013-07-11T19:41:11","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T23:41:11","slug":"freddie-freeman-beats-out-yasiel-puig-in-final-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/07\/11\/freddie-freeman-beats-out-yasiel-puig-in-final-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Freddie Freeman beats out Yasiel Puig in final vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3531\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3531\" style=\"width: 674px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3531\" alt=\"freddiefreeman2\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/freddiefreeman2.jpg\" width=\"674\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/freddiefreeman2.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/freddiefreeman2-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 674px) 100vw, 674px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3531\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Harry How\/Getty Images North America<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Atlanta Braves first basemen Freddie Freeman surprisingly was the NL Fan Vote selection to the All-Star Game. Freeman led from the beginning of voting until conclusion and will attend his first All-Star Game.<\/p>\n<p>Yasiel Puig, who had been considered the favorite entering the contest, finished second meaning he will have to wait to make the team as an injury replacement.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of debate has been made about whether or not Puig should be invited to the All-Star Game but in this instance fans voted against him by electing the 23-year-old Freeman.<\/p>\n<p>Freeman set a record with 19.7 million votes, while Puig was second both elipsing the previous record for final votes recorded by Shane Victorino in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s unbelievable,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/mlb\/allstar13\/story\/_\/id\/9471111\/freddie-freeman-steve-delabar-elected-all-star-game\" target=\"_blank\">Freeman said<\/a> of the news. &#8220;I&#8217;m kind of speechless. I wouldn&#8217;t be here without the fans and I just saw that it&#8217;s 19.7 million votes. It&#8217;s incredible and it&#8217;s just a dream come true.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For the season Freeman is hitting .307\/.388\/.858 with 9 home runs and 56 RBI in 78 games.<\/p>\n<p>Just for the sake of comparison Puig is hitting .394\/.428\/.634 with 8 home runs and 19 RBI in 35 games for the Dodgers.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto Blue Jays reliever Steve Delabar was the final vote winner in the American League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta Braves first basemen Freddie Freeman surprisingly was the NL Fan Vote selection to the All-Star Game. Freeman led from the beginning of voting until conclusion and will attend his first All-Star Game. Yasiel Puig, who had been considered the favorite entering the contest, finished second meaning he will have to wait to make the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[28,399,387],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-3530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-atlanta-braves","9":"tag-freddie-freeman","10":"tag-yasiel-puig"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3530"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}