As the All-Star week is upon us, let's see how the fans did in their selections for the starting lineups by comparing the fan-voted All-Star Game starters to the Total Runs leaders. Total Runs is a statistic created by Baseball Info Solutions that combines offense, defense, baserunning, and an adjustment that allows for comparison across positions into one number in order to evaluate the total contribution of each player.

The fans matched the Total Runs leaders very closely in their selection of the American League starting lineup. There are only two selected starters who are not Total Runs leaders – Justin Smoak and Mike Trout. Smoak trails Logan Morrison by only three Total Runs, and if Trout hadn’t have been out since May 28th after injuring his thumb, he likely would have been among the leaders. Mookie Betts, who is replacing the injured Trout in the starting lineup, leads all of baseball in both defense and baserunning with 20 Defensive Runs Saved and 5 Baserunning Runs, and trails only Aaron Judge in Total Runs.

The fans matched up with the Total Runs Leaders for half of their National League selections. The biggest discrepancy comes with their first base selection, Ryan Zimmerman, who trails Paul Goldschmidt by 26 Total Runs. This season, Goldschmidt has been much better than Zimmerman defensively. He has saved the Diamondbacks eight runs, whereas Zimmerman has cost the Nationals two. Likewise, fans seem to have put defensive performance aside in their second base selection, Daniel Murphy, who trails DJ LeMahieu by five Total Runs. While Murphy is having an outstanding offensive season with a line of .342/.393/.572, he has cost his team 14 runs with his defense, which is more than any other second baseman. DJ LeMahieu, on the other hand, has saved the Rockies eight runs defensively. The other two All-Star Game starters who aren't Total Runs leaders, Zack Cozart and Marcell Ozuna, trail the Total Runs Leaders at their positions (Corey Seager and Ender Inciarte) by 10 and 2 Total Runs, respectively.

Logan Morrison is the only player that made one of the Total Runs All-Star teams who did not get named to an All-Star game roster. Yonder Alonso of the Athletics, who was selected as the AL first base reserve, has 46 Total Runs, 21 fewer than Morrison. Mike Moustakas of the Royals, who beat out Morrison in the Final Vote by the fans, has 59 Total Runs, 8 fewer than Morrison.