MLB All-Stars: Too stupid to count, but it does

I'm sure this has been discussed elsewhere, but I still don't totally get why LaRussa is managing at all. I know MLB is citing the John McGraw Rule that allows a retired manager to come back for the All-Star game, but I just don't see the sense in it.

 

Honestly, I'd have to take your word for that. I really don't know much about Altuve's fielding at this point.

 

Just look up his dWAR.

 

Well played

 

I think Reggie Jackson made the team one year with a sub-.200 batting average, so it's not like it's never happened, but Adam Dunn's selection with an average hovering at around .210 for a while now certainly shows that the on-base percentage revolution is pretty much complete.

Last year he was one of the worst players in baseball history.

This year he's an All-Star.

Crazy.

 

Is there any reason whatsoever why the doldrums of baseball need to have representatives? The Padres suck, and Street has pitched all of 21 innings this season.

I swear, this happens almost every year the game is close- we're left with forgotten turds from the Orioles and Pirates battling against each other while one of the two managers inevitably forgets that he's got a stud on his bench from a good team that's already had players play. Enough.

 

What you're saying is that seeing McCutchen and Adam Jones isn't worthy of your time.

For the most part, I'd rather see them than the face of the week from ESPN's Sunday night Yankees-Red Sox game.

 

Except Hill and Altuve are right there offensively. And really, it only has to be one who is better since Uggla was voted in.

 

Make it Ginsu knives, and it's a deal.

One thing about Lance Lynn making the team: It was the players who picked Lynn, not the fans or La Russa. And La Russa is managing because Selig asked him to do it.

 

I assume he meant that for years that neither team had a worthy representative, but didn't bother to look at the quality of player they are sending this year. If anything, the Pirates had guys who were unfairly snubbed. James McDonald has a 2.44 ERA and Joel Hanrahan is third in the NL with 20 saves and has a 2.10 ERA. But Hanrahan probably lost the spot he deserved to Street so they could get a Padre on the team.