Posey closes in on Molina in latest NL All-Star update

Buster Posey is making his move.

The San Francisco Giants catcher moved to within 75,000 votes of St. Louis Cardinals backstop Yadier Molina in the latest National League All-Star ballot update from Major League Baseball.

Molina remains the only non-Chicago Cubs player to sit atop his position. Baseball's best team is continuing to dominate the ballot, and specifically the infield, where Addison Russell, Kris Bryant, Ben Zobrist, and Anthony Rizzo - still the top vote-getter in the senior circuit - remain on track to start the 87th midsummer classic. If trends hold, they would be the first set of infielders from one team to share an All-Star game infield since the 1963 Cardinals.

Cubs center fielder Dexter Fowler, who was placed on the disabled list this week, remains the leading vote-getter among NL outfielders, while Bryce Harper and Yoenis Cespedes are still on track to start alongside him. Fowler's teammate, Jason Heyward, is a distant fourth place among outfielders, sitting 488,195 votes back of the New York Mets slugger.

Only one infield position can be considered a "race" at this point, as Colorado Rockies shortstop Trevor Story finally passed the 1 million-vote mark this week. Though he's the closest among any second-place infielder to catching one of the Cubs, Story actually lost ground from last week, when he was around 280,000 votes behind Russell, and now sits nearly 380,000 votes back.