MLB All-Star Voting: 2026 Ballot Dates, Rules and Deadlines
MLB All-Star voting is online: the 2026 KONAMI eBaseball ballot sits at the league's voting page, on all 30 club sites, and in the MLB and MLB Ballpark apps. Voters had to be at least thirteen years old, and fans worldwide could take part in Phase 1. Each valid email address could send five ballots a day in Phase 1, with one extra daily vote through the referral link in KONAMI's eBaseball: MLB PRO SPIRIT app.
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Where the ballot lives online
The 2026 KONAMI eBaseball MLB All-Star Ballot was an online form only. Major League Baseball placed it on its own voting page and on all 30 club websites, and it sat inside two apps as well. The published rules describe no paper route, no stadium kiosk and no text line, so every valid submission came through one of those four doors.
Access was broad. Fans around the world could take part in Phase 1, and the only age condition in the rules was a floor of thirteen years. Beyond that, everything about who could take part hung on one thing: a valid email address, because the daily allowance was written per address rather than per person.
- The league's own voting page, reachable from its All-Star coverage
- All 30 club websites, each carrying the same form
- The MLB app
- The MLB Ballpark app
Dates: the start, the deadline and the close
The 2026 schedule had two windows, and both closed at noon Eastern Time. MLB All-Star voting opened at 12:00 p.m. ET on June 3, 2026 and ended its first round at 12:00 p.m. ET on June 25. Phase 2 began at noon on June 29 and shut at noon on July 2, a four-day sprint that settled the remaining starting jobs before the game.
No ballot is open today. Both windows of the 2026 edition have closed, so date talk now belongs to the next edition, and Major League Baseball announces those numbers in its own press releases and ballot rules when the season reaches June. Checking the organiser's pages at that point beats guessing from an old schedule.
- Start: June 3, 2026, at 12:00 p.m. ET
- Phase 1 deadline: June 25, 2026, at 12:00 p.m. ET
- Phase 2 deadline: July 2, 2026, at 12:00 p.m. ET
How the two-phase ballot works
The form worked in two rounds with different questions. Phase 1 asked for a full slate: your top choice at every position, designated hitter included for both leagues, and three outfielders. The top overall vote-getter in each league after that first round earned an automatic starting spot in the game, whatever happened later.
Phase 2 narrowed everything. Fans chose between two finalists at each position and among the top six outfielders in each league, and those picks settled the remaining starting jobs. The ballot changed shape between June 25 and June 29, so a submission that fit the first round did not fit the second.
- Phase 1: one pick per position, three outfielders, worldwide access
- Phase 2: two finalists per position, six outfielders, starters decided
Pitchers, starters and the All-Star Game
Fan voting decided the starters, and only part of the roster. The 2026 form determined eight position players and one designated hitter in each league, American and National, and starting pitchers were left out of it entirely. That is why a pitcher conversation never belongs in the fan form: the ballot had no slot for one.
The other 23 spots per side came from inside the sport. Player Ballot choices accounted for the eight pitchers in each league, five starters and three relievers, plus a backup at every position. The Commissioner's Office added six more names per league, four pitchers and two position players. Together those two routes filled the pitching staff and the bench that fan voting never touches.
- Fan ballot: eight position players and one designated hitter per league
- Player Ballot: eight pitchers per league, five starters and three relievers
- Commissioner's Office: six additional players per league, four pitchers and two position players
Daily limits and what the rules check
The daily cap was the rule most fans met first. During Phase 1, a single valid email address could send five ballots each day the window was open. One more was available each day through the referral link inside KONAMI's eBaseball: MLB PRO SPIRIT app, which took the day's totals to six for a fan who used both routes.
Those caps are also what the organiser checks against. Every submission hangs on an email address, the number per address is written into the rules, and a form sent outside the window or past the cap is not a valid ballot under the published terms. The rules state the limits plainly; they do not describe how submissions are reviewed beyond that, and nothing here can supply what the rules leave out.
Reading the published rules before relying on a date
The ballot rules carry the weight, and they leave gaps. A daily allowance for Phase 2 does not appear in the published terms on record here, and neither does a tie-break procedure for a close position race. The honest entry for both is that Major League Baseball has not published them; no other document on record settles the question.
What the rules do state, they state precisely: window times, the cap, the referral vote, the age floor. Where a future edition changes any of that, the change arrives in the organiser's own ballot rules and press releases, and a deadline read anywhere else is a deadline worth re-checking against those documents.
- The window times, in Eastern Time, for both phases
- The five-per-email daily cap for Phase 1
- The referral vote and the age floor of thirteen
| Phase | Window | Ballot focus | Daily limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Phase 1 | June 3 to June 25, 2026, at 12:00 p.m. ET | One pick per position plus three outfielders | Five per email, plus one referral vote |
| Phase 2 | June 29 to July 2, 2026, at 12:00 p.m. ET | Two finalists per position and the top six outfielders | Not published in the rules |
| Outside the fan ballot | Decided after and alongside the fan windows | Eight pitchers per league via the Player Ballot, six more per league from the Commissioner's Office | No fan allowance applies |
Do this in order
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Open the voting page or an app
Go to the league's voting page, any of the 30 club websites, or the MLB and MLB Ballpark apps. All four routes lead to the same 2026 form, and the rules treat them as one ballot.
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Pick one player at each position
Choose your top choice at every position, designated hitter included, and three outfielders in Phase 1. The form asks for a full slate rather than a single name.
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Submit inside the open window
Send the ballot before the phase's closing time in Eastern Time. A submission counts only within the published window for the round it belongs to.
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Return the next calendar day
The Phase 1 allowance stood at five ballots per valid email address each single day, with one extra through the KONAMI referral link. A new calendar day reset the allowance until the phase closed.
Fast answers
When does MLB All-Star voting end?
Phase 1 of the 2026 ballot closed at 12:00 p.m. ET on June 25, 2026, and Phase 2 closed at 12:00 p.m. ET on July 2, 2026, on the schedule Major League Baseball published. Both windows ran in Eastern Time. A submission sent after a phase's close fell outside that phase, and the rules give no route for a late ballot to count.
When does MLB All-Star voting start in 2026?
MLB All-Star voting in 2026 started at 12:00 p.m. ET on June 3, the opening of Phase 1. That first round ran for roughly three weeks, long enough for fans around the world to pick a full slate of starters in both leagues before the finalists round began on June 29.
How many times can you vote in MLB All-Star voting?
The organiser's own allowance was five ballots per valid email address each single day that Phase 1 was open, plus one extra daily vote through the referral link in KONAMI's eBaseball: MLB PRO SPIRIT app. A daily cap for Phase 2 does not appear in the published terms on record, so that figure is best read straight from the organiser's rules each season.
How often can you vote for MLB All-Stars?
The Phase 1 allowance reset each single day the window was open: five ballots per valid email address daily, under Major League Baseball's rules. The referral route in the KONAMI app added one more for that day. Once the phase closed, the allowance ended with it, and Phase 2 ran on its own shorter schedule.
How do you vote for MLB All-Stars?
The fan ballot lives at the league's voting page, on all 30 club websites and inside the MLB and MLB Ballpark apps. Pick your top choice at each position, submit inside the open window, and return the next calendar day for a fresh set under the daily allowance.
Do fans vote for pitchers in the MLB All-Star Game?
No. Fan voting decides the eight position players and one designated hitter in each league, and starting pitchers sit outside the fan ballot entirely. Player Ballot choices account for eight pitchers per league, five starters and three relievers, and the Commissioner's Office selects six further players, four pitchers and two position players.
Does MLB check whether ballots follow the rules?
The published rules put the checks within reach of the organiser: each submission hangs on a single valid email address with a cap of five a day. A form sent outside a phase's window, or past the stated cap, is not a valid ballot under the published terms. How submissions are reviewed beyond that is not described publicly, and the rules state the limits without promising any outcome.
References
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No entry here promises a result or a way around a rule. The published terms cap each email at five ballots a day in Phase 1, a submission outside a window does not count, and no sentence on this page can change a closing time. Where the rules are silent, the entry says so instead of filling the gap.
Each organiser's own terms decide which votes are valid, and an organiser can void votes or disqualify an entry. ITV's Love Island terms limit each registered mobile number to one vote per voting event and rule out any method the terms do not state. America's Got Talent asks voters to register and accept its official voting rules, with a cap of ten votes per act, per voting method, per voting window. The American Music Awards decided each winner by the total of valid votes in the category.
Organisers write an ordinary voter down in numbers. The American Music Awards allowed up to 30 votes per award per day on each voting platform, the NASCAR All-Star Race fan vote allowed five a day per unique email address, and the iHeartRadio Music Awards allowed 50 a day per category. A crowd of separate voters stays inside limits like these and arrives day by day, with busier days when an organiser opens a boost. This describes how organisers count; it is not a way around a check.
We give no legal advice and cite no statute: the terms that bind a fan vote are the organiser's own, and they fix who may vote. Dancing with the Stars online voters must be at least 18 and in the United States, its territories or Canada; Love Island USA voting is open to US residents aged 18 or older, or with parental permission. We refuse member-only ballots such as the ACM Awards, categories an organiser decides itself, as MTV did with Best Video, and any vote for public office.
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The part of a request that is not delivered before the organiser's voting closes is refunded. A result, a disqualification and a voided vote are never refunded, because the organiser decides all three. Nor is a vote's worth inside the format covered: the MLB All-Star ballot did not carry Phase 1 totals into Phase 2, and at The Game Awards fan voting is one tenth of the vote that decides winners.