Rangers Sending 2 to Pittsburgh

[Molina00]

Michael Young has been named to the all-star team as a reserve and this will be his 3rd career all-star game appearance. Young definately earned his spot posting a .319 batting average, .363 OBP, 28 doubles, and 91 runs produced in 81 games this season.

At the age of 31, Gary Matthews Jr. will be making the first all-star appearance of his career. Matthews was named a reserve as a replacement for the Blue Jays injured Alex Rios. He should have been an easy choice for the all-star team though posting a .326 batting average, .375 OBP, 25 doubles, and 75 runs produced in 69 games.

[Roy31]

That was an amazing catch by Matthews the other day. Nice to see him going to the all star game.

[Molina00]

That definately was an awesome catch by Gary. I'm just glad Ozzie had enough sense to choose him.

[mattyfatty4]

I really thought we had a chance to send 4+ players again this year, but Teixeira and Blalock have been under-performing to their expectations. Meh, I guess we'll have to wait until next year to send 4+ players again.