Monday, June 2, 2008

First Place Angels AWOL in ASG Voting

...copied from
http://www.rallymonkey.com/pluggedout-blog2/index.php?entryid=217

Major League Baseball posted it's first look at All-Star balloting today and to the surprise of nobody (and the delight of Selig and ESPN) the results are littered with Red Sox and Yankees and severly void of players on the first place teams.

Baseball only lists the top five at each position, fifteen for outfielders, so the real extent of the oversights can't properly be judged.

The Angels are first in the West and yet, if balloting ended todat, only Vladimir Guerrero would be an All-Star. In fact, the only other Halo to be listed is Torii Hunter who is 9th for outfielders.

The East-leading Tampa Bay Rays fare even worse in the voting. Despite having the best record in all of baseball, no Ray is higher than first baseman Carlos Pena. Ray outfielders Carl Crawford and BJ Upton are 13th and 15th respectively.

The Central Leading White Sox also only have three players amongst the top vote getters. DH Jim Thome is third highest, 3rd Baseman Joe Crede is 4th and former Angel Orlando Cabrera is 5th amongst shortstops.

As for the leaders, they are all either Red Sox or Yankees except in the outfield where Ichiro is second and Vladdy third.

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