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2011
Mets All Star Snubs? And Flubs?
An article by Craig Lerner
If you’re expecting to see Jose Reyes take the filed for the 2011 All Star Game in Arizona’s Chase Field, Mets fans better start stuffing the ballot box with all due haste.
According to Adam Rubin, the Mets have barely made a ripple in the first balloting results announced for
the All-Star Game.
The only positions where a Met appears in voting tallies are at shortstop where Jose Reyes ranks #3, third base where David Wright ranks #4, and outfield where Carlos Beltran ranks #8.
There’s no chance Beltran or Wright get voted in, and Jose Ryes is already more than a half million votes behind Troy Tulowitzki.
I’m pretty sure that Reyes has a good chance of getting picked by NL manager Bruce Bochy to fill out his bench, and I’m guessing K-Rod may get picked as well. But it looks like superstar good player/good kid David Wright will end his streak of consecutive All Star appearances at five.
In other Mets All Star stuff, how about the fact that the Mets representative on the ballot is Brad Emaus who now toils in Colorado Springs?
Ted Berg on his blog Ted Quarters sheds more light on the stupidity of it all.
Brad Emaus is on the N.L. All-Star ballot. For some reason the All-Star ballots are still filled with every team’s projected Opening Day starters every year even though a) we have the Internet now and b) you figure there has to be some efficient enough way for the league to print and distribute All-Star ballots without including Rule 5 picks that were in the Minor Leagues by mid-April. Am I missing something here? Is there some other reason Brad Emaus is on the All-Star ballot that I’m not aware of?
He concludes by asking the question that illustrates just how ridiculous this all is:
What would happen if by some small miracle Brad Emaus was elected to the All-Star team? Does Emaus get called up from Colorado Springs to play? What hat does he wear?
Come on Bud, inquiring minds want to know.
About the Author: Craig Lerner
I'm a data analyst and researcher for a leading news agency who loves life and is hooked on the Mets. I love following the Amateur Draft and have a particular fondness for the Mets Minor Leagues who I follow each day. Give me a cold beer, a summer day, and a Mets game, and I'm good to go.
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The All Star game has been a joke ever since the fans got involved in the ballotting.
The players know who the best are, they should be picking.
Then it would mean something.
The real jokes are your pathetic posts fake agee.
Harry C.
I see all of your comments are nothing but childish lash outs at people who have an opinion?? Must be a small minded dweeb like yourself can’t come up with his own opinion so he has to show his adolescent stupidity to make himself feel like the man he isn”t. What a joke you are
the players and writers don’t do a much better job. they vote reputation and favorites just like the fans do!
look at gold glove. No fans involved in that one.
“This time it counts…even though we still require one player from every team and play with exhibition rules.”
No Mets are deserving to be voted in, not even Reyes as Tulo is the most deserving.
By “more deserving” you must mean “being less productive” which is actually the opposite of what the All Star Game is about.
Have you ever watched a baseball game?
Tulo: .251/.328/.483/.811
Reyes: .335/.382/.493/.876
Yup, Tulo definitely deserves to go to the All-Star game over Reyes….
Does any Met besides Reyes and K-Rod deserve to be an all-star?
Could make a case for Beltran.
Yes donutz, one could make a case for Beltran and the fact that you siad so without being able to make such a case shows just how stupid you are. Thanks for reminding the world for the thousandth time that you are a useless parrot for Sandy your false god.
And thank you for reminding us once again all that you’re a tool and Donal’s little lapdog. Now scram.
Could have also made a case for davis before he got hurt.
Davis was having a nice season before he got injured, but he hasn’t played since May 10 and he’s not expected back until around the all-star game…i mean Moises Alou batted .342 with 13 HRs in the 102 games he actually played for the Mets, but you don’t put a guy in the all-star game because he plays well when he is healthy enough to play only a partial season.
As for Beltran, I agree, a case could be made for him…amongst the league leaders in XBH’s and SLG…however, he is batting below .280 and barely ranks in the top 20 in any other offensive category, granted, some of that could be contributed to the weak lineup around him, but there are several other NL OFers who are having pretty big offensive seasons (Kemp, Braun, Berkman, Soriano – just went on DL, Bruce, Holliday, Stanton). Depends on how many OFer’s Bochy puts on the roster and how many roster spots go to the required 1 player per team rule. Beltran could be the 6th or 7th NL OFer if it works out.
However, I still feel Reyes and K-Rod are the only 2 Mets who are no-brainers for the all-star team…no one else on this team should feel “snubbed” if they don’t make it…how many players from 4th place teams usually make it on an all-star team?
other than reyes and maybe krod, noone else deserve to be even mention next to all star, reyes won’t star because for some reason the media and fans are enfatuated with the overrated tulowitzki and hanram is just straight up garbage this year, but those 2 will be elected ahead of reyes.. mets fans don’t vote for all stars if is not david allen wright, who’s the most overrated met according to the players vote in the SI poll
Rollins is actually leading Reyes.
And Beltran deserves a look.
it speaks volume of what the fans are doing… quite frankly is a shame some players get the “let’s put him in for his accomplishments in the past” treatment, leaving the real all star of the season out or to be subs..
Tulo is overrated? I wish we had him instead of Wright. Wright is the one who’s overrated, not Tulo.
Lmao!! chris, careful here they ban you for saying such a thing, trust me, I KNOW!!
You know they play different positions, right?