Blog Posts For Tag: All Star

This weekend marks the beginning of MLB’s vaunted “Put the NL in its Place” Week and the completion of the first quarter of the 2010 baseball season. Instead of ragging on the National League, making fun of its Triple A pitchers and Little League hitting, I am going to play stat geek and look at the best each league has to offer.

It now less than a month until the All Star teams are announced, something I realized this weekend when I received a ballot at my baseball game of the season. I looked at the ballot and realized that I really did not have a clue who to vote for (even though I get to vote 25 times according to the MLB website). My attention has been waning as my favorite team has been busy dashing all my delusional spring training hopes. The only stats I really know are those for the players on my fantasy team, so I took about an hour and looked at the list of names and decided who actually deserves to make an appearance at the game and contemplated who many players will get voted on just because of rabid fans and name recognition.