All-Star game rosters

You can see the actual rosters here. Apart from the gaping vortex of suck starting at shortstop for the AL (thanks, fans!), there aren’t huge numbers of obvious snubs. I do find it bizarre that the AL team’s manager loaded up on first basemen and outfielders. But there is one All-Star that isn’t, who I’d like to introduce you to.

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB	Pos	Awards
2011	22	CLE	AL	66	223	212	27	54	13	0	7	22	1	0	8	49	.255	.284	.415	.699	94	88	3	1	1	1	1	5/D
2012	23	CLE	AL	43	151	142	16	38	6	1	5	16	2	1	8	27	.268	.311	.430	.741	107	61	2	1	0	0	0	5D
2013	24	CLE	AL	94	308	289	30	65	17	0	11	36	1	0	16	56	.225	.270	.398	.668	87	115	8	2	1	0	0	5/D
2014	25	CLE	AL	72	267	237	36	80	20	1	9	39	2	0	19	43	.338	.395	.544	.940	165	129	1	5	3	2	1	5D3
4 Yrs				275	949	880	109	237	56	2	32	113	6	1	51	175	.269	.315	.447	.762	113	393	14	9	5	3	2
162 Game Avg.				162	559	518	64	140	33	1	19	67	4	1	30	103	.269	.315	.447	.762	113	232	8	5	3	2	1

Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 7/7/2014.

Lonnie Chisenhall is kind of an awful 3B defensively. He also is just shy of enough ABs to qualify for the batting title. These are details. You know what it isn’t a detail? Being 8th in the entire major leagues in Offensive WAR. A stat that, I will remind you, “punishes” players with less playing time, since it’s a counting stat. Every other player in the top ten is going to the All-Star game, except for Kyle Seager, who is eligible for the final vote (because they’ve stupidly decided only pitchers are eligible for the AL).

Do I think Chisenhall’s performance is sustainable? Of course not. I think he has the chance to be a very good player, but not this good. But isn’t recognizing weird half-seasons precisely what the All-Star games are for?

BTW, if the AL loses the World Series because Derek Jeter fucks up — and I bet he will, since he’s awful this year — I hope it’s the Yankees who get screwed over.