The Los Angeles Dodgers will be fielding five All-Stars at this year’s game in Philadelphia.
Pitching-wise, the Dodgers get just one player, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and Shohei Ohtani, who may end up pitching — though likely not.
Additionally, Shohei Ohtani, Freddie Freeman, Max Muncy, and Andy Pages are the four players who will start the game.
This is Pages’ first-ever selection, and it is a very deserving one, playing outstanding defense in center field, while making real strides at the plate as a bat-to-ball guy.
Muncy is making his third All-Star Game, Freeman now has 10 appearances to his name, while Ohtani has six All-Star Games.
In fact, Max Muncy has become the first Dodgers player to start at third base since Ron Cey in 1997. He will be just the fourth Dodger to start in the hot corner.
Were any Dodgers snubbed from the All-Star team?
Tanner Scott is a puzzling omission, given his 1.88 ERA and a stunning 0.72 WHIP. He was flat-out not good last year, and his status in baseball took a hit, but this year, he is pitching better than ever.
Additionally, fellow bullpen-mate Alex Vesia has been stellar this year, with a great strikeout rate and only a 2.51 ERA. Scott and Vesia, while not having some of the lights-out stuff that other dominant relievers have, deserved to be in the All-Star game.
Mookie Betts has been hitting the ball so well recently, and his defense remains reliable, but his poor start rightfully leaves him out of the running for an All-Star spot.
Similarly, Kyle Tucker has not been his usual All-Star self with the Dodgers and deserves to be watching from home, a brutal development since he is making $60 million this year.
Teoscar Hernandez was hitting the ball so well before he got injured that he might have pushed for at least an All-Star reserve spot.
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