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The All-Star rosters will be announced Sunday
Sunday morning’s Say Hey, Baseball includes the All-Star roster announcement, who’s really responsible for stolen bases, and another injury for the Mets.
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Somehow, we’re already approaching the halfway point in the baseball season. Or, at least, the unofficial halfway point which typically comes a couple weeks after the actual halfway point. It’s been a fascinating season around the league. There have been a tremendous amount of dingers, so many that conspiracy theories are sounding more and more credible every day. There have been surprising teams in Colorado and Milwaukee. There have been disappointing clubs in New York, Chicago. There has been stars and scrubs in the National League and parity galore in the American League.
On Sunday, we’ll celebrate everything we’ve seen thus far with the announcement of the All-Star rosters. It’s always been kind of strange to me that All-Stars are announced halfway through the season rather than at the end, but this is just the way it is. As we know, the starters are decided by fan voting that has been going on since May and the reserves and pitching staffs are chosen by a combination of manager’s picks and player voting.
This is always a controversial day on the baseball schedule, as it’s impossible to pick a team without having some sort of snub. There are 34 players on each All-Star roster, so the 35th player always appears he was robbed. Of course, this would be the case regardless of how large the roster was. Plus, over the next couple of weeks until the game is actually played, there will be injuries that knock players off the roster and allow the snubs onto the roster. Tune in to ESPN tonight at 7:00 p.m. ET to see who will be in the Midsummer Classic July 11.
- Amid the Miguel Montero drama in Chicago, Beyond the Box Score tries to figure out who’s really responsible for stolen bases.
- Bradley Zimmer likes diving so much he did it twice.
- The Nationals bullpen has been a disaster this season, and especially of late, but it got a little more help this week.
- Meanwhile, the Mets’ season continues going down the same bad road, this time with Michael Conforto hitting the disabled list.
- Despite their bad loss last night, the Yankees might be getting some good news with Masahiro Tanaka potentially turning a corner.
- Byron Buxton is one of the fastest players in all of baseball. So why can’t he steal third base?
- The Brewers have been one of the most surprising teams in baseball this year, but don’t expect them to go all-in to succeed in 2017.
- Allen Craig was one of the best hitters in the National League not all that long ago. He’s never been able to get back to that level, and now he’s been released by the Red Sox.
- Speaking of released players, should the Tigers try to find room for Bartolo Colon?
- The Reds may have found a new ace of their staff in Luis Castillo.
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