ESPN Makes their Picks to start the All-star Game

by laxtonto on Jul 4, 2008 1:16 PM CDT Comment 9 comments

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/allstar08/news/story?id=3472772

In advance of the All-Star Game selections on Sunday, ESPN.com surveyed 32 of ESPN's top baseball minds to find out which players should be starting in the 79th Midsummer Classic on July 15 at Yankee Stadium. Following are the voting results and the choices at each position

Its not a surprise that Texas has 4 starters, the bigger surprise the margin with Kinsler 26 more than Perdoria, Young 10 more than Jeter, Bradley 22 more than Manny, and Hamilton getting 32 votes to lead the OFers...

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4 rangers starters...

and two former rangers are starting @ pitcher…

by Andrew L on Jul 4, 2008 1:51 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Cliff Lee

He’s not a former Ranger.

by Adam J. Morris on Jul 4, 2008 2:50 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I imagine he meant

Justin Duchscherer, who got some votes to be the AL starter in this survey.

by Agreen07 on Jul 4, 2008 3:01 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

The only other thing

is that he meant two former rangers as starters, regardless of position, and then his mind got distracted and he said pitcher.

Because the two former Rangers that are starters on that list are Volquez and A-Rod

Go Vote for Kinsler, Young, Hamilton, Bradley and write in Murphy. http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/events/all_star/y2008/ballot_reg.html - Vote up to 25 times on as many email accounts as you can think of!

by tdi1985 on Jul 4, 2008 5:26 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

And Ryan Ludwick

by Adam J. Morris on Jul 4, 2008 10:08 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'll have to admit

my ignorance on that one… of course I didn’t really start hardcore following the Rangers until 2005.

Go Vote for Kinsler, Young, Hamilton, Bradley and write in Murphy. http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/events/all_star/y2008/ballot_reg.html - Vote up to 25 times on as many email accounts as you can think of!

by tdi1985 on Jul 5, 2008 11:16 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs