Royals Earn Four Starters

And the hometown Reds can celebrate a starter, too, despite Cincinnati’s sorry season. Long a doormat in the AL, the Royals have more starters this season than in the previous 25 years combined. The last time Kansas City had any starters was 2000, when outfielder Jermaine Dye was chosen to start. “As much as I think we have players here that are All-Star caliber players, we certainly have one who without a doubt deserves to be in that starting lineup”.

In the National League, the MLB-best Cardinals led all teams with two starters: outfielder Matt Holliday and shortstop Jhonny Peralta.

Escobar is another interesting choice for shortstop but for this, it was nearly like the fans did not know who to vote for so they just let the Royals pick.

The closest competition was for the third and final outfield position.

Donaldson, who collected 14,090,188 total votes, set a new all-time single-season voting record, surpassing Josh Hamilton’s 2012 total of 11,073,744 tallies. Buster Posey of the Giants is the catcher.

Frazier was trailing every week of voting behind Cardinals third baseman, Matt Carpenter, but a campaign by the Reds to “Vote Frazier” to earn over nine million votes and easily claim the role of starting third baseman for the National League squad.

Each fan could cast up to 35 ballots in online voting. Moustakas leads the Royals with 87 hits and ranks tied for first among AL third baseman in batting average.

“I was really nervous”.

“It’s hard”, he said, “but I want to do the right thing here, for everybody”. I would much rather see a good player play in the All-Star game than a popular player.

It must be kept in mind by Major League Baseball All-Star fans across the world that pitchers and reserves are actually selected by none other than the players and the managers of the game.

First Base: Miguel Cabrera, Detroit Tigers. Pittsburgh outfielder Andrew McCutchen will start in place of Miami’s injured Giancarlo Stanton.

I recently wrote a piece about Jarrod Dyson playing through an injury, and a reader commented that if Dyson were not 100 percent, he shouldn’t be on the field.

In the NL, that includes Johnny Cueto, Jeurys Familia, Clayton Kershaw, Carlos Martinez and Troy Tulowitzki. Harper said Monday he won’t participate in the Home Run Derby because his father isn’t available to pitch to him following shoulder surgery.

The counter argument is that someone who doesn’t pay attention could easily scream into a radio microphone why should a relative unknown like O’Day or Boxberger determine home-field in a high-leverage situation late in the game?

Ray offers his opinion on the players voted to start the 86th All Star game on July 14th, and names the fantasy all stars at each position. Despite having 20 homers this year, Goldschmidt does not believe he has a home run swing so he would have to tinker with his swing were he to try and hit them on objective.