National League All-Star Team

[Kingdom]

Managers: Kingdom, Realmofotalk, General, CJKalt


Starters + Batting Order (starters were voted in by you)
1. Bossman Junior Upton SS, Maine
2. Jay Bruce RF, Savannah
3. Dave Wright CF, Savannah
4. Ryan Braun 3B, Maine
5. Gregory Wright LF, Flushing
6. Tyler Hines 2B, Vice City
7. Ryan Garko 1B, St. Louis
8. Jack Earl C, Montreal
9. Aramis Ramirez DH, Vice City

I moved people around the field a little since Aramis Ramirez is dreadful defensively. The order it setup so the 1-6 are back to back and they are clearly the backbone of the lineup.


Reserves (managers decision)
C Charlie Glenn, St. Louis
1B Joe Matthewson, Vice City
SS Stephen Drew, Cancun
SS Thomas Horn, Durham
OF Luis Flynn, Springfield
OF Frankie Pepper, Boston

Since it's only 25 man rosters, I had to leave out 3-4 guys I was strongly considering but since none of them were overwhelming, it is what it is. I chose Glenn because he had the 2nd best combination of stats and ratings behind Earl. He narrowly edged out Miguel Montero. Matthewson was a tough call, but it's hard to leave the man 2nd in the NL in hitting out even though he has no power. Drew and Horn have had great seasons, both were no brainers. I chose Drew over Luis Kerr because Drew is the better overall hitter, a much better fielder, and has speed. The outfield turned out to be a very deep position and was difficult to leave out players such as Austin Kearns and Riley Cooper. Pepper narrowly edged out Kearns and I had Flynn as a borderline starter so for me, he was a no brainer.


ASG Starter (my decision)
Zach Greinke, St. Louis

He could easily win the pitching triple crown and his ERA is insane, there was little question as to who was getting the nod. Let's just hope he takes a Valium before taking the mound.


Rest of the Pitching Staff (*indicates being voted in, rest were manager decisions)
SP Ray Liotta Savannah*
SP David Price Maine*
SP Homer Bailey Durham*
SP Joey Zavaleta Tokyo
SP Don Sanders Flushing
SP Rich Harden Boston
MR Dmytro Chygrynskiy Tokyo
CL Francisco Rodriguez Valhalla
CL Huston Street Vice City

This ended up being the deepest and most difficult position to select. In fact, I could have easily bypassed picking backups and allocated those slots to 6 more pitchers, and even then, it's likely we'd have snubs. Early apologies to those with Josh Beckett, Joe Nathan, Chris Mason, Dontrelle Willis, etc. most other years, those are all-stars, but consider who I have chosen and who you chose, it's just not going to happen. KRod and Street are having great years as closers and I wanted actually relievers on the team. Also, Tokyo's foreigner is having an impressive year out of the pen. Zavaleta is having a Cy Young caliber year, just look at the unreal k:BB ratio. Harden and Sanders speak for themselves.


12/16 teams are represented and I strongly considered trying to rep as many teams as possible, in the end, I do favor players who are more deserving vs. every team having an all-star.

[cjkalt]

Looks like a winning roster to me, nice work KoZ

[ljshorty89]

2 All Stars for the Toilets! Yay

[realmofotalk]

Big ups, Cory, for taking the time to do it.

[Foster]

Earl will deliver for you, I garontee,

[Kingdom]

Deliver what, a baby?

[mackjd]

Let's go NL

[Doppelgänger]

Boooooooo

[Foster]

Deliver what, a baby?

And much much more.

[Kingdom]

That's more than his owner can say at least.

[Porter]

Kerr is having a solid year contact wise. But I agree with KoZ on taking Drew over Kerr.

Its a shame I didn't start Bush sooner with his solid numbers.

[Kingdom]

In hindsight, I believe I voted for Kerr initially, but his stats have since come down a little and Drew's have gone up. Kerr would have made it if the rosters were expanded/or the depth of great pitching was weak.

[Foster]

This is a pretty stacked league, there are a lot of quality players out there, and looking at the roster shows this.

I thought I had a decent pitching staff, yet still none are on the AS team.