PHILADELPHIA - For three Phillies, the path to the All-Star Game now runs through one final voting push.
Second baseman Bryson Stott, third baseman Alec Bohm and outfielder Brandon Marsh have advanced to the final round of the 2026 KONAMI eBaseball™ MLB All-Star Ballot, giving Phillies fans three chances to vote members of the home team into the starting lineup for the Midsummer Classic at Citizens Bank Park.
Phase 2 voting begins Monday, June 29, at noon and runs through Thursday, July 2, at noon. Vote totals from Phase 1 will reset, meaning the race starts over for every finalist. Fans can vote once per day on MLB platforms, with the winners earning starting assignments for the July 14 All-Star Game in Philadelphia.
For the Phillies, it creates a three-day sprint with a rare local prize attached. This is not merely a push to get players to the All-Star Game. This is a chance to place Phillies in the starting lineup at home, in the first All-Star Game ever played at Citizens Bank Park.
Stott advanced as one of the final two candidates at second base in the National League after finishing second in Phase 1 voting with 1,388,744 votes. He trails only Braves second baseman Ozzie Albies, who finished with 1,498,141 votes.
The margin matters less now than the opportunity. With the vote totals resetting, Stott enters Phase 2 on equal footing with Albies.
If Stott wins the final vote, he would earn the first All-Star selection of his career and become just the third Phillies second baseman to win a fan election, joining Mariano Duncan in 1994 and Chase Utley, who was elected six times between 2006 and 2014.
That is not small company.
Utley became one of the defining Phillies of his era, a player whose All-Star presence helped symbolize the club’s rise into one of baseball’s best teams. Stott’s candidacy carries a different shape, but it still represents something meaningful: another homegrown Phillies infielder with a chance to be recognized by the fans on a national stage.
Bohm is back in familiar territory.
The Phillies third baseman advanced to Phase 2 after finishing second among National League third basemen with 1,423,564 votes. Dodgers third baseman Max Muncy led the position with 2,890,181 votes in Phase 1, but that advantage disappears when the final round opens.
Bohm won the fan election at third base in 2024 and is now bidding for his second trip to the Midsummer Classic. A second fan-elected start would put him in exclusive franchise company. According to MLB, Bohm would join Hall of Famer Mike Schmidt as the only Phillies third basemen to win multiple fan elections.
That is the historical hook for Bohm. Schmidt owns the gold standard at the position in Philadelphia, with nine fan elections. Bohm is not being placed in that class as a player. Nobody is. But in the narrow context of All-Star fan voting, he has a chance to do something only Schmidt has done among Phillies third basemen.
Then there is Marsh, whose candidacy may be the most interesting of the three because of where he stands in the outfield field.
Marsh finished second among National League outfielders in Phase 1 with 2,015,932 votes, behind only Dodgers outfielder Andy Pages, who finished with 2,158,664. Unlike the infield positions, the outfield race includes six finalists, with three starting spots available.
Marsh is competing against Pages, Ronald Acuña Jr. of the Braves, Teoscar Hernández of the Dodgers, Juan Soto of the Mets and Michael Harris II of the Braves. Three of the six will start.
For Marsh, the stakes are simple. He is bidding for the first All-Star selection of his career. He also is attempting to become the first Phillies outfielder to earn a starting assignment since Raul Ibañez in 2009.
That detail alone gives his candidacy weight. The Phillies have had stars since then. They have had postseason teams, MVPs, big-name free agents and franchise cornerstones. But they have not had a fan-elected starting outfielder in the All-Star Game in 17 years.
Marsh now has a chance to end that drought at home.
The Phillies had several players draw strong support in Phase 1. J.T. Realmuto finished third among NL catchers. Bryce Harper finished third among NL first basemen. Trea Turner finished fourth among NL shortstops. Kyle Schwarber finished second among NL designated hitters, though Shohei Ohtani earned the automatic starting assignment after leading the National League in overall voting.
But the final vote belongs to Stott, Bohm and Marsh.
Their cases are different. Stott is chasing his first All-Star appearance and a place alongside Duncan and Utley in Phillies second-base voting history. Bohm is trying to return to the All-Star stage and join Schmidt as the only Phillies third basemen with multiple fan elections. Marsh is trying to claim his first All-Star nod and become the franchise’s first fan-elected starting outfielder since Ibañez.
Together, they give Phillies fans three races to watch and three reasons to vote.
The full All-Star starters and rosters will be announced Saturday, July 4, on FOX. By then, the Phillies will know whether the home ballpark will have more than a local backdrop.
It could have three local starters, too.
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