Strasburg was one of 13 pitchers selected to the National League roster. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Stephen Strasburg, Gio Gonzalez and Ian Desmond will represent the Nationals at the Major League Baseball All-Star Game later this month, and it’s possible that Bryce Harper could join them.

Strasburg and Gonzalez will join a bullpen stocked with the rest of the National League’s best pitchers. The left-handed Gonzalez is second in the National League with 11 wins (and three losses), with an earned run average of 3.01, while Strasburg’s 122 strikeouts are the most in baseball.

Desmond, meanwhile, is having another solid year at the plate, hitting for a .276 batting average with 13 home runs and 43 runs batted in.

All three players were selected by Tony LaRussa, the former manager of the St. Louis Cardinals who retired after winning last year’s World Series.

But fans desperate to see one more National on the roster can promote Harper, who was nominated as one of five candidates for the “Final Vote” to select the 34th player on LaRussa’s roster. Harper is up against David Freese of the Cardinals, Aaron Hill of the Arizona Diamondbacks and Michael Bourn and Chipper Jones of the Atlanta Braves.

Fans are permitted to vote as many times as they wish using MLB’s website, but Harper, nice guy that he is, doesn’t want people to vote for him. Between now and when polls close Thursday at 4 p.m., Harper recommends voting for Larry Wayne Jones Jr., who plans to retire at the end of this season, his 20th with Atlanta. In his career, Jones has collected more than 2,600 hits, belted 460 home runs and registered a .304 batting average. Most baseball analysts consider him a surefire Hall-of-Famer from an era in which many of the best hitters were aided by science, an allegation that Jones avoided.

Harper told the Post that while it’s nice to be nominated, if he had a vote, he’d give it to Jones:

“It’s an accomplishment, I guess, but you got Chipper up there,” he said. “So, I think a Hall of Famer should be able to go to all-star game his last year. If I was going to make a vote, I’d go vote for Chip.”

Still, the Nationals didn’t pick up on Harper’s endorsement of his Final Vote rival, and are pushing fans to stuff the electronic ballot box with the 19-year-old’s name. They’re even teaming with the Baltimore Orioles—who are hoping to get Jason Hamel onto the American League roster—in promoting the “Beltway Ballot.”