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Toronto-born actor Stephen Amell, best known for his role in the television show Arrow, has also been campaigning for the Jays third baseman, leveraging his widely followed Twitter and Facebook accounts to petition fans to vote for Donaldson.

All-star voting had reached deeper into the public consciousness than usual because of the concerted push by Royals fans to vote for their own players. As many as eight Royals led the positional races with only the Angels’ Mike Trout occupying one of the three outfield spots. But fans in other markets mobilized. Donaldson is poised to overtake Moustakas and Tigers first baseman Miguel Cabrera passed the Royals’ Eric Hosmer in this week’s tally to reduce the Royals’ starters by one, for now.

Cabrera received the second most votes in the last period, garnering just over 4 million. Trout received 3.2 million to take over top spot among outfielders from Kansas City’s Lorenzo Cain.

Two other Blue Jays surged in last week’s voting. Outfielder Jose Bautista and catcher Russell Martin both got more than 2.5 million votes. Bautista is now sixth among outfielders with 5.3 million votes; Martin moved into second among catchers with more than 4.7 million votes but trails overall vote leader Salvador Perez of the Royals by nearly 5.5 million votes. Perez passed the 10-million mark this week.

The hegemony by the Royals has served to goose voting throughout the American League. Washington’s Bryce Harper leads NL voting with 6,059,827 votes, which would place him 12th among all AL players.