We’re officially less than a month away from the MLB All-Star Game coming to the Atlanta metro area and as we’ve discussed a few times off-handedly around here, there’s a real question as to how many hometown representatives the Atlanta Braves themselves will have going into this game.

As of right now, the Braves are only guaranteed the one required player representative for each team and manager Brian Snitker was selected to National League manager Dave Roberts’ honorary staff for the game, so we know that there will be at least two people with Braves uniforms on in the NL’s dugout for this year’s All-Star Game.

However, one Braves player has been on a tear lately and has been steadily rising up the ranks in All-Star voting and that’s Ronald Acuña Jr.

Despite starting the season late, Acuña has hit the ground running upon returning and has now played his way into potentially landing a starting job in the All-Star game.

He’s now in fourth place in voting among NL outfielders, with the three players ahead of him being Pete Crow-Armstrong and Kyle Tucker of the Cubs and Teoscar Hernández of the Dodgers.

PCA is currently leading all qualified big league outfielders in fWAR (in the non-Aaron Judge tier, since Judge is in a tier of his own at the moment), Kyle Tucker is tied for fourth-place in fWAR among qualified outfielders and Teoscar Hernández plays for the Dodgers.

With that being said, what Acuña has done at the plate since returning has been eye-popping.

After Sunday’s action, Acuña is sitting on a .396/.504/.698 slash line with a .506 wOBA, a .441 xwOBA, eight homers, two stolen bases and 230 wRC+ for 2.1 fWAR so far on the season.

Acuña has played only 27 games so far this season and he’s only 0.3 fWAR behind Matt Olson for the team lead at this point and is only 0.2 fWAR away from cracking the top 30 in fWAR among outfielders (if he was qualified).

Acuña has been on a heater (even for his standards) and while it would be incredibly impressive to see him make the All-Star Game as a starter, it wouldn’t be a huge surprise to see him continue to rack up the votes from the fans as long as he keeps this up.

Here’s what MLB’s press release had to say on the matter:

Acuña, who has been on a tear since being activated from the Injured List for his season debut on May 23, has jumped two spots in the NL outfield to rank fourth overall with 1,140,061 total votes behind leaders Pete Crow Armstrong of the Chicago Cubs (2,005,630), two-time All-Star Teoscar Hernández of the Los Angeles Dodgers (1,366,537) and three-time All-Star Kyle Tucker of the Cubs (1,219,866).

Acuña is trying for a fifth career fan election, which would match Hall of Famer Hank Aaron and Dale Murphy for the most in franchise history.

Phase One of All-Star voting is set to end at 6:00 p.m. ET on this coming Thursday night, with ESPN set to reveal the starters on July 2 and the full rosters on July 6. The All-Star Game itself will culminate MLB’s All-Star festivities on July 15 at Truist Park.