MIAMI – One-time Jesús Aguilar has reached a rare level of air with the Milwaukee Brewers.

Thanks to the number of MVPs and incredible pressure from the staffers, players and fans of Brewers after he was rebuffed, Aguilar officially became a star. Wednesday afternoon by winning the first round of voting in the National League in the final vote of the stars of the MLB.

Aguilar, 28, defeated two other base players – Brandon Belt of San Francisco Giants and Max Muncy of Los Angeles Dodgers – as well as Trea Turner Infielders of the Washington Nationals and Matt Carpenter of the St. Louis Cardinals.

He will also participate in Home Run Derby, adding an extra layer to his experience.

really excited, "Ag uilar said shortly after hearing the news." I just have to say thanks to all those guys for the support. It was amazing for me, for my family. I just have to thank you again. It will be my dream come true.

"It was a lot of things, it was three busy days, but here we are.We created it.I just have to say thank you.I really appreciate it. "

The blitz was on to get Aguilar in the All-Star Game as soon as it was made official Sunday, he was not part of the initial group of selected players – a group that included Brewers Lorenzo Cain's teammates Christian Yelich and Josh Hader

While Brewers employees were furiously working behind the scenes to encourage fans to vote – in Milwaukee and Miami – Aguilar spent almost every free moment at Marlins Stadium over the past three days doing interviews and to help

It was announced on Tuesday afternoon that Aguilar was leading the final vote, and shortly after the close of the eVoting, he was applauded by his teammates and the staff of the group. coaches when Craig Cou nsell made the announcement in the Brewers Club.

In the end, Aguilar received the second highest number of votes in the history of the Final Vote with 20.2 million. Only Justin Turner of the Dodgers has received more; he earned 20.8 million in 2017.

"We are all delighted, he is incredibly deserving," Counsell said. "I'm incredibly proud of the Brewers fans – from Wisconsin and across the country – who did a great job.

"For Agui, the front-office team, the players – everyone has made a huge effort for a truly deserving guy."

Aguilar was asked for derogations from the Cleveland Indians on February 2, 2017 – about two weeks before training in the spring, he managed to clear his way up to his first day of training. opening despite an unofficial performance of MVC Cactus League with an average of .452, seven homers, 19 races. In 1965, Eric Thames was recruited as a free agent to be the team's first baseball player, Aguilar saw most of his action early in the game against left-handed shots.

While becoming the team's top hitter, Aguilar also gained more time in first base as the season progressed. By the time he was finished, he had averaged .265, 16 homers and 52 RBIs in 133 games after never getting over 33 in a single season with Cleveland.

Despite this performance, there were questions as to how Aguilar would be part of the team this season following the Brewers' Cain and Yelich out-of-season acquisitions, with Thames already in first base and Ryan Braun being there to try to calm the situation in the outside field. He finally allowed the Brewers to keep Aguilar, and after Thames was thumb operated at the end of April for 41 games, the slugger claimed the first base as his.

Leading the NL with 23 points, OPS at 1.000 and slaloming .631 while he was third with 64 points.

"It's amazing, I never thought this thing was going to happen," Aguilar said. "I just kept working, and I'm an all-star guy right now, it's amazing, I can not believe it yet."

"There are a lot of things in my mind right now . I am so proud of myself). I've shown that I can do it at this level. I showed them to this organization. They believed in me.

"I just have to say thanks to the Brewers organization for believing in me, I'm going to be a star player."

Aguilar's waiver request turned out to be The equivalent of a grand slam front-office, but general manager David Stearns said it was the player who finally did it "

" I think that means "Agui deserves a lot of credit for working and trying to fight for every opportunity he's ever had," said Stearns. "He had to make his way through this team twice. He had to make his way through this formation.

The only other derogation of the Brewers to star status was closer to Derrick Turnbow in 2006.

Aguilar is the Brewers' third player to win the final vote, joining Geoff Jenkins in 2003 and Corey Hart in 2008.

It gives Milwaukee four stars for the first time since 2014, when Carlos Gomez, Jonathan Lucroy, Aramis Ramirez and Francisco Rodriguez all did so.

Aguilar had already made plans for He is very happy to change gears and make the trip to Washington, DC, and he savored the call he made to the house to inform his wife of news

. She was happy, he said, my little boy was happy, my mother was happy too, they accompany me, that's for sure.

Aguilar becomes the 10th Brewers player in the Home Run Derby, and the first since Prince Fielder and Rickie Weeks in 2011. Fielder has played three times (2007 and # 09; the only Brewers win in 2009.

Greg Vaughn (1996), Jeromy Burnitz (1999), Richie Sexson (2002), Carlos Lee (2005), Ryan Braun (2008) and Corey Hart (2010) were the others.

"They asked me if I wanted to do it and it was like," Let's do it. Let's be part of the big moment and the big show, "said Aguilar," we're going to have fun with my little boy over there and these superstars behind me.

Some believe that there is a Home Run Derby "" I do not really think about that, "he says." I will try to go there and hit a stick practice, how I do it every day. I will not let this affect my swing. "

Counsell is on board with his participating slugger

" I mean, why not? "I think that's a no-brainer."

The Brewers could also add a fifth star to Jeremy Jeffress, who calls himself in the race. In fact, Counsell gave the NL team manager , Dave Roberts of the Dodgers, a call to strain for the right-handed

"We do not know the process of how" There are other guys who deserve to be on the list There are some good guys, but he must be on the list of guys you have chosen. consider if there are guys who can not pitch. "