Cardinals' Donovan off to Surprisingly Slow Start in All-Star Voting

Most notably, second baseman Brendan Donovan is currently in fourth place among NL second baseman, trailing the Diamondbacks' Ketel Marte, Dodgers' Tommy Edman and Cubs' Nico Hoerner.

The other Cardinals currently ranked inside the top 10 are designated hitter Iván Herrera (7th), first baseman Willson Contreras (8th), third baseman Nolan Arenado (9th) and shortstop Masyn Winn (10th).

Donovan being in fourth place comes as a surpirse, considering he is the league leader at second base in WAR (according to FanGraphs) and leads all qualified second basemen in batting average, on-base percentage and wRC+.

Marte being ahead of Donovan is understandable given the numbers he's put up this season, but he's also played in 20 less games. Just from a numbers perspective, though, there doesn't appear to be any reason for Edman and Hoerner to be receiving votes ahead of Donovan.

The Los Angeles and Chicago markets compared to St. Louis obviously play a role in these fan voting numbers too. Donovan only trails Hoerner by roughly 28,000 votes, but Edman has him beat by close to 200,000 votes.

With a 2.2 WAR and slashline of .313/.381/.440 through 65 games, Donovan has certainly posted an all-star caliber season. He'll need to crack the top two in fan voting in order to move on to Phase 2 of the voting process. Phase 1 concludes on Thursday, June 26 at noon EST.