NEW YORK -- Yoenis Cespedes is putting up the best first-half numbers of his career, and in doing so, the Mets outfielder is making a bid for his second career All-Star selection.
Major League Baseball released the first weekly voting update of the 2016 Esurance All-Star Game Ballot for the National League on Wednesday, and Cespedes has the third-most votes among outfielders, with 792,395.
Cespedes trails only the Nationals' Bryce Harper -- who has the second-most votes in the NL behind the Cubs' Anthony Rizzo -- and Chicago's Dexter Fowler.
In his lone All-Star season in 2014 with the Athletics, Cespedes batted .246 with 14 home runs and 56 RBIs before the break. Through 47 games this season, the 30-year-old slugger was batting .275 with 15 homers and 37 RBIs.
Alongside Cespedes, six other Mets rank among the top vote-getters at their position. Fellow outfielders Michael Conforto and Curtis Granderson rank eighth and 13th, respectively.
Second baseman Neil Walker, who entered play Wednesday batting .278 with 13 home runs, is third behind the Cubs' Ben Zobrist and the Nationals' Daniel Murphy. Asdrubal Cabrera is also third among NL shortstops in the first update.
First baseman Lucas Duda and third baseman David Wright each rank in the Top 5 at their position, but they are currently battling injuries. Duda is on the 15-day disabled list with a stress fracture in his lower back, and Wright could join him in the near future as he deals with a herniated disc in his neck.
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