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Last year, the D-backs had just one player selected to the All-Star Game -- reliever Joe Mantiply.

This year, it’s possible they could have as many as four depending on how everything with the roster shakes out.

Corbin Carroll has risen to No. 3 among National League outfielders in the All-Star voting tallies that were released earlier this week, just 1,101 votes ahead of D-backs teammate Lourdes Gurriel Jr.

Phase 1 of the voting ends at 9 a.m. MST on Thursday and until then you can vote as many as five times per every 24-hour period exclusively at MLB.com, on all 30 MLB club sites and on the MLB app.

Fan votes will help decide who will start the 2023 MLB All-Star Game presented by Mastercard on July 11 at T-Mobile Field in Seattle. The leading vote-getter in each league will receive an automatic spot in their team’s starting lineup. Beyond those two players, the top two vote-getters at every position, and the top six outfielders, will advance to Phase 2 of the voting, which begins on Monday. If an outfielder is a league's leading vote-getter, only the next four outfield finalists will move on to Phase 2 to determine who starts at the two remaining spots.

Carroll and Gurriel have both put together resumes so far this season that are All-Star worthy, especially Carroll.

Carroll entered play Wednesday second in the Majors in slugging percentage (.591) and third in OPS (.975) among qualified players. Shohei Ohtani leads both categories, with Carroll just behind Yordan Alvarez in OPS.

That’s pretty good company.

Considering that this year’s All-Star Game will be played in Carroll’s hometown, making the team would be an even bigger deal than usual.

“That would truly be special,” Carroll said. “You know, obviously, my family is all up there, tons of friends back from college and so just being able to play in front of them, it would be a great honor.”

Gurriel has delivered clutch hits for the D-backs this year and entered Wednesday with a 123 OPS+.

The D-backs also have a pair of pitchers who deserve serious consideration in Zac Gallen and Merrill Kelly.

Arizona pitching coach Brent Strom likened the pair to his Houston days, when he had Gerritt Cole and Justin Verlander at the top of the rotation.

“You saw the same thing there,” Strom said. “I think they have mutual respect for each other. We need both of them, especially with the other young starters giving us the innings they're giving us, it’s really important that [Gallen and Kelly] continue to give us the six-plus each and every time out.”

The D-backs have had four or more players selected for an All-Star team three times in franchise history.

In 1999, Jay Bell, Luis Gonzalez, Randy Johnson and Matt Williams all were selected. In 2002, when D-backs manager Bob Brenly skippered the NL squad, the D-backs had six players: Gonzalez, Johnson, Byung-Hyun Kim, Damian Miller, Junior Spivey and Curt Schilling. In 2017, Paul Goldschmidt, Zack Greinke, Jake Lamb and Robbie Ray participated in the game in Miami.

“We’re really proud of their accomplishments,” D-backs manager Torey Lovullo said of Carroll, Gurriel, Gallen and Kelly. “We hope that things go the way that they’re supposed to and they can go represent the Arizona Diamondbacks to the best of their abilities. We’re extremely excited about the types of years that their having and they’re extremely deserving of consideration.”