With last night’s announcement of the starters for the 2019 All-Star Game, baseball’s experiment with a new fan voting process officially came to its completion.

Ten of the 17 All-Star starters currently lead their respective league in WAR at their position, with two more — Gary Sanchez and Nolan Arenado — sitting in virtual ties.

Here’s the full breakdown, first for the American League:

And now for the National League:

Even among the players who are not leading their position in WAR, there aren’t many significant snubs. Xander Bogaerts is the biggest miss. He didn’t even garner enough support to be named as one of the three finalists. (Neither did Anthony Rendon, for that matter.) But don’t fret. Both Bogaerts and Rendon will more than likely be among the names listed when the All-Star reserves are announced Sunday evening.

In total, 59% of the starters will be represented by their current WAR leader. At least from this observer’s point of view, the fans did pretty well.

For good measure, let’s compare this to the fans’ selections in 2018. First, here are the 2018 American League starters:

And here are the 2018 National League starters:

For those keeping track, the fans selected nine WAR leaders, again out of the 17 total spots. So while the fans did indeed pick one more WAR leader to start the All-Star Game this year as opposed to last year, the results aren’t especially different. One year’s result does not necessarily mean that this year’s process was any better or worse than last year’s. Perhaps this is a topic for another day, but we could even get into a further discussion of what “better” means. I know I would rather have Gary Sanchez starting for the AL squad than James McCann, so should we fault the fans for not picking the WAR leader in that specific case? Of course not. After all, “star” is right there in the name.