3 shocking Rangers results from first round of 2025 All-Star voting

The first All-Star Game voting updates were released on Monday afternoon, led by top vote earners in Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani. Not surprisingly, a Texas Rangers player was not near the top in any of their positions.

Not to say a player with Texas across their chest didn't crack in the top 10 for their respective positions but if they did, it was near the bottom due to a horrendous start to the year.

Here are 3 surprising results regarding Rangers players in first ballot update

Corey Seager barely cracks to the top 10 AL shortstops

Closing in on 130,000 votes, the 30-year-old shortstop just cracked the top 10 at No. 10 in a stacked position battle being led by Athletics' rooke Jacob Wilson with over 562,000 votes.

Now the shocking part isn't that he's getting votes. It's Corey Seager and despite his struggles, he is still one of the best hitters in baseball. It's the fact that he is so low in votes that is surprising. Not in the sense that he deserves more, but more in the sense that it's weird to see Seager so low in voting.

He's only played in 41 of the Rangers' 72 games this season due to multiple trips and extended stays on the injured list with a right hamstring issue. Right now, chances seem slim he even makes the team as a reserve, which is fine with us. More time for him to rest for the second half of the season.

Joc Pederson received how many votes?!?!

Remember the Rangers' veteran designated hitter currently on the injured list with a broken hand? Yeah, it seems voters don't care about that or his .131 batting average because he's currently 8th among American League DH's with 81,719 votes.

This is why people from around the league have been against fan voting for so many years. Players like Pederson that despite an injury still have no reason to be on the All-Star team, yet they continue to get votes.

Now it's not like he will make the team but to see Pederson getting votes and being in the top 10 is a bit crazy to me.

No Wyatt Langford is a crime

Given the need for three outfield positions, MLB released the top 20 vote-leading outfielders outside of the other position top 10s. A noticeable absence from that list is the Rangers' 23-year-old Wyatt Langford.

I know Langford started the season strong and since then has fallen into a bit of a tough hole, hitting .218 over his last 30 games, Langford still has 13 home runs, 30 RBIs, 11 stolen bases and 27 walks in 61 games this year.

Among qualified outfielders in the AL, he's tied for fourth in homers, 15th in RBIs, 18th in hits, 7th in stolen bases and 11th in slugging percentage. Those aren't lights out numbers but they for sure seem like better than top 20 vote-getting numbers.