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APNewsBreak: $15,000 bonuses for All-Star voting leaders

By RONALD BLUM to-three days to allow pro-
AP Baseball Writer motional campaigns, a fi-
NEW YORK (AP) — The most nal vote will be conducted
popular players in All-Star during a 24-to-48-hour peri-
voting will be in the money od in late June or early July.
— at least enough to cover The bonus pool for the win-
part of the season’s club- ning All-Star team has been
house tips. increased from $640,000 to
The highest vote-getter $800,000, which translates
in both leagues in the first to a hike from $20,000 to
round of the new fan vot- $25,000 per player.
ing system will receive a The Home Run Derby prize
$15,000 bonus, according money has been increased
to details obtained by The from $750,000 previously
Associated Press. That pay- specified for this year to
ment will go to the leading $2.5 million, and the win-
vote-getter at catcher and ner’s amount has risen from
each infield position plus $150,000 to $1 million. The
the top three among out- losing finalist gets $500,000
fielders. instead of $100,000, and
For all positions other than the six other participants
the outfield, the second- $150,000 each rather than
place finishers will receive $75,000. The player with
$5,000 apiece and the Philadelphia Phillies’ Bryce Harper jogs onto the field before a baseball game against the the longest home run gets
third-place finishers $2,500 Washington Nationals at Nationals Park, Wednesday, April 3, 2019, in Washington. an extra $100,000, up from
each. Associated Press $25,000.q
Major League Baseball
announced the addition
of prize money on March
14 but did not reveal the
amounts. This year’s All-Star
Game is July 9 in Cleve-
land. Most of last year’s
elected starters have huge
salaries this year, includ-
ing Philadelphia outfielder
Bryce Harper ($10 million
salary plus $20 million in
signing bonus payments),
Los Angeles Angels out-
fielder Mike Trout ($16 mil-
lion salary this year plus a
$20 million signing bonus
payment) and Colorado
third baseman Nolan Are-
nado ($26 million).
Only two of last year’s
elected starters earn be-
low $1 million this sea-
son: New York Yankees
outfielder Aaron Judge
($684,300) and Chicago
Cubs catcher Willson Con-
treras ($684,000).
Fan voting resumed in 1970
for All-Star starters other
than pitchers, and the di-
vision into two phases this
year marks the biggest
change since. The new sys-
tem was agreed to by Ma-
jor League Baseball and
the players’ association on
March 8 along with on-field
rule changes for this year
and 2020,
A primary voting period will
start in late May or early
June and last three-to-four
weeks. A fan able to cast
up five on-line votes per
day, After a break of two-