Which is a More Glaring All Star Injustice ?

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Which is a More Glaring All Star Injustice ?

  • Joey Votto is Not an All Star ( .984 OBS, 19 HRS, 57 RBI )

    Votes: 10 55.6%
  • Omar Infante is an All Star ( .717 OBS, 1 HR, 22 RBI )

    Votes: 8 44.4%

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i think there both terrible. but seriously how did infante make the team? i understand how guys like jeter and arod can post sub par stats and still make the team, because of their track record. but lets be honest, people arent going to the stadium just to see infante
 
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i think there both terrible. but seriously how did infante make the team? i understand how guys like jeter and arod can post sub par stats and still make the team, because of their track record. but lets be honest, people arent going to the stadium just to see infante

Hey ! I totally Agree....I don't see, I Don't get it !

I think they should do a Re-Count !!
 

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Youkilis not on the allstar team is also a joke. He is arguably the red sox best player.
 

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votto, latos, youklis are just a few...nothing wrong with infante, since each league HAD to pick a utility player this year...wiggington got it in AL, though lots of utility players w/ better stats than infante like uribe
 

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The word in Philly as Manual has stated is that Infante was picked as a utility player. Manager were urged by MLB to pick a utility guy who could play multiple postions in case of extra innings
 

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[FONT=verdana,arial]July 7, 2010
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[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Votto's snub from National League All-Star roster is wrong[/FONT]
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BY HOWARD WILKINSON
[/FONT]Charlie Manuel, the manager of the Philadelphia Phillies, should be grateful for one thing: that his team came into Great American Ball Park to play the Reds last week and not this week.
The Reds took two of three against the Phillies last week. That was before Manuel who, as manager of the 2009 National League pennant winner will lead the NL in the All-Star Game in Anaheim, Calif., filled out the NL roster.
It was before Manuel made one of the most egregious, most glaring and most inexplicable omissions since baseball began breaking up its long seasons with the Midsummer Classic in 1933.
He left Cincinnati first baseman Joey Votto off the roster.
The fans voted St. Louis' Albert Pujols as the starter. So be it. Pujols is a marquee name and a player of extraordinary abilities. He will, barring injuries, go to the Hall of Fame some day and join the true legends of baseball -- Ted Williams, Willie Mays, Henry Aaron and fellow Cardinal Stan Musial.
That was the fans' choice; they made it.
The rest was up to Manuel. He made his choice, too, picking San Diego's Adrian Gonzalez and -- hang on to your seats, because this is a shocker -- Ryan Howard of the Phillies.
So Manuel is a homer. I'm a homer, too. He is by no means the first All-Star Game manager to pass over a more deserving player to put one of his own boys on the team; he won't be the last.
But this is beyond homerism. This is just ignorant.
Votto, 25, has come into his own as one of the best players in the game. He is an extraordinarily disciplined and skilled hitter and a solid defensive player who has advanced light years since he first came to the majors to stay in 2008.
The All-Star Game, from the start, has had no real meaning except to showcase the best players of the game, putting together "dream teams" of AL and NL player to face one another in a game where the stats don't count and has no impact on the pennant races.
In an attempt to attract bigger TV audiences a few years ago, Major League Baseball officials tacked on a silly rule where the league which wins the All-Star Game wins home field advantage for the World Series.
Mainly it is just a way to honor the best players of today, right now.
Baseball is a game of cold, hard numbers. But it is a game of sentiment, too; sometimes players get named to an All-Star team not to recognize their performance that year but to thank them at the end of a fine career. That was the case six years ago when Reds shortstop Barry Larkin was named to the All-Star team in what was his final year as a player.
But numbers do mean a lot in baseball. This year, Votto has them. Before Tuesday's games, Votto was in the top five in batting average, home runs, RBI, total bases, on-base percentage and slugging percentage.
He was first in the NL in home runs (21). Pujols was second (20), Gonzalez eighth (16) and Howard 11th (15).
Pujols ranked first in RBI with 60, followed by Votto and Howard with 59, and Gonzalez in 16th with 51.
Total bases? Votto was first (173), Pujols second (169) Howard seventh (161), and Gonzalez 13th (153).
Batting average? Votto was third (.318), Pujols ninth (.305), Howard 17th (.296) and Gonzalez (.291).
How about on-base percentage: Again, Votto was first (.418), Pujols second (.413), Gonzalez sixth (.386), Howard 36th (.350).
Then, there's slugging percentage. Guess who is first? Votto at .599. Pujols was fourth (.567), Gonzalez 12th (.517), and Howard 15th (.502).
You tell me, which first baseman has the best numbers?
One of the hardest things to do in baseball is to win the Triple Crown. It hasn't been done since Boston's Carl Yastrzemski did it in 1967. No National Leaguer has done it since the Cardinals' Joe "Ducky" Medwick in 1937.
With some luck and a hot second half, Votto has a shot at doing that near-impossible feat.
Look up and down the NL All-Star roster this year and you see the effects of a very dumb rule requiring at least one representative from each team. That means Houston's Michael Bourne (.260 average, 20 RBI) will be there.
He's an All-Star and Votto is not?
This can not stand.
Luckily, MLB prolongs the hype with a second vote, a "Final Vote," where fans can choose one additional player from each league, voting online at team websites and mlb.com.
Votto is on the ballot; and if you compare the stats, there is no question he is the cream of the crop in the NL.
Get online and vote Votto. You can do it over and over again.
Voting Votto on to the team will be more satisfying than heaping abuse on Manuel from the upper deck of Great American Ball Park.
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Injustice?
having only Torrie as the halos lone repersentive!
Weaver should also be on the all star team!
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you guys thinking that votto is going to get chosen over howard is asinine. no way in hell charlie manuel is gonna do that.
 

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