Washington Nationals phenomena Stephen Strasburg will have to wait another year for his 1st All-Star appearance. Strasburg was a major topic of debate heading into this weekend. It was a tough decision, and I think rather easy to understand both viewpoints.
The Major League Baseball All-Star game should be respected and its integrity needs to be upheld. All other major sports in the U.S. have All-star games that are nothing more than watered down exhibition games. The NBA is the worst at putting players on the All-Star team that don’t deserve to be on the team.
Strasburg may be good enough to make the All-Star team, but he hasn’t earned it yet. Yes, we all know he will but the fact of the matter remains that he doesn’t have a body of work to back up what we all believe to be true.
But we all want to see him! It seems unthinkable we would deny ourselves of the timeless memory of watching Strasburg not only play but start in his rookie season All-Star Game.
The USA Today Daily pitch reported,
The NL staff, as announced Sunday will include Nationals' closer Matt Capps, but not Strasburg.
"He got quite a bit of consideration, I haven't seen the guy pitch live yet," NL manager Charlie Manuel said. "Leave him alone, let him pitch. He's going to be an All-Star for a long time." Read More
Jeff Passan of Yahoo!Sports wrote in a July 4th post, “One can look at the All-Star Game in two ways.
The first is as a showcase for the fans, which is supported by MLB allowing them to vote the starters. No player drives fan interest today like Strasburg. Bring him on board – or, better yet, allow the fans to vote him in – and watch ratings for the game and interest in it soar.
The second is as a game with real implications: World Series home field. Managers should, then, pick the best players for their teams. Only in Manuel’s world, where Omar Infante deserves an All-Star bid, Arthur Rhodes(notes) andEvan Meek(notes) are better equipped to help the NL win than Strasburg.
Like Manuel said, he’ll make plenty of All-Star teams going forward, and so will …” Read More
Regardless of how Strasburg may feel or what we selfishly may want to see, we are both going to half to wait till next year.
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