ETA: Westburg IS an All-Star.
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Can’t blame Mason Miller for getting an all star spot. But if Rooker puts the same numbers up for almost any other team, he makes it.
You mean small market teams have a hard time getting their best players selected in a system that is heavily influenced by idiots (fans) voting?
I’m shocked. Yet another continued shítty tradition by MLB. There are still people in Boston still probably voting for Nomar every year.
I’m shocked. Yet another continued shítty tradition by MLB. There are still people in Boston still probably voting for Nomar every year.
Went to a Rangers game last week and every 10 minutes they’d remind everybody to vote for Semien, who was awful that night. But, it was a pretty full house that had come watch a bad team. Bobblehead night (Lowe’s bobblehead for golden glove) probably didn’t hurt.
I flipped on a Baltimore game the other day, and I’d be surprised if it was even half full. And they have a great team.
Fan support matters in these situations. As dumb as it is.
I flipped on a Baltimore game the other day, and I’d be surprised if it was even half full. And they have a great team.
Fan support matters in these situations. As dumb as it is.
Semien has had a bad year. Hopefully, he's starting to warm up. Westburg should have been on the team, but don't discount the facts that Semien is coming off a World Series championship AND on the team that is hosting the All-Star game, in addition to your good comments on fan support. It is what it is, and I'm fine with that (and also a Rangers fan, so yes, biased).
They play different positions. Rafael Devers is the backup 3B for the AL over Westburg. He's batting.293 with 21HR and 55 RBI.
A big part of it is just marketing and “tradition”. The metric for MLB career performance as far as how often were you “one of the best” has always been number of All-Star selections. Its a completely bogus system, where you are using a half-season performance and throwing in uneducated opinions to determine the best players each year.
The fact that it took MLB until 2019 to come up with the All-MLB team - a rough equivalent to the AP All-Pro team for NFL, or All-NBA team - is an abomination. And even with that implementation, its still 50% tied to fan voting. Everything from their salary / compensation structure to their best player awards is just blatantly used to prop up the big market teams.
Doesn't matter how he gets there (in this case, injury replacement). He's an MLB All Star forevermore.
Deserved.
Deserved.
If you’re not even about this, then you’re not trying as hard as others on this board.
Well I guess him not getting in at first is still schitty. And there's still Rooker.
There we go. Keep those numbers up.
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