Coach Tom’s National League All Star Team

Here are the starting all stars for the National League, and who i believe deserves to be starting for the National League

Coach Tom’s Cacher- Yadier Molina, St.Louis Cardinals

Actual Catcher- Buster Posey, San Francisco Giants

The Giants catcher Buster Posey will be starting in the 2012 all star game despite not being first in a single category offensively or defensively. Lets compare my all star to the actual all star. Posey’s average .303, Molina .309. Posey’s hits 77, Molina 82. Posey’s doubles, 15, Molina 15. Posey’s homers, 10, Molina 13. Posey’s RBIs, 42, Molina 45. Posey 1 stolen base, Molina 7. Posey, slugging .480, Molina .513. Molina leads all catchers in every offensive category but 2, and also is above Posey in all but 1 defensive category. Molina should be your N.L. starter.

Coach Tom’s 1st Baseman- Joey Votto, Cincinnati Reds

Actual 1st Baseman- Joey Votto

The Cincinnati Reds 1st baseman Joey Votto has proven himself to get to his 3rd all star game in his career. Votto is ver deserving of the starting role after going  .350 with 93 hits, 50 runs, 33 doubles,  14 homers, 47 RBIs, and 60 walks. Votto leads 1st baseman in virtually all offensive categories including obp .471, slugging .632, and ops 1.103. Fans got it right when voting for former MVP Joey Votto to represent the N.L. in the all star game.

Coach Tom’s 2nd Baseman- Aaron Hill, Arizona Diamondbacks

Actual 2nd Baseman- Dan Uggla, Atlanta Braves

This is my biggest snub in all the all star starters. Dan Uggla is batting .234 on the season which puts him 9th between all 2nd baseman in the N.L. while Aaron Hill is batting .300 which leaves him second. Hill and Uggla lead 2nd baseman with 11 homers on the season, and Hill has 86 hits to Uggla’s 64 which again is 9th between N.L. 2nd baseman. To add to Aaron Hills great year, not only being in the top 6 in all the offensive categories, Hill made history of his own becoming the first player in over 100 years to hit for the cycle 2 times in the same year. Most interesting stats are the runs created, 51.4, runs created per 27 outs, 6.61, and isolated power, .213 lead all 2nd baseman. That fans got this one terribly wrong in my eyes.

Coach Tom’s 3rd Baseman- David Wright, New York Mets

Actual 3rd Baseman- Pablo Sandoval, San So  Francisco Giants

This is another pick that was a no brainer for me and concluded to me that fans have no brains. So the Mets David Wright is leading in every offensive category except homers this season with 53 runs scored, 98 hits, 26 doubles, 50 RBIs, 48 walks, .354 average, .447 on base percentage, .560 slugging, and 1.006 ops. This is by far Wright’s best start to a season and it’s not like Sandoval is even close in statistics with Wright. Sandoval is 10th or worse in every category besides average, which technically he hasn’t had enough bats to even qualify for. So sad how someone as in David Wright can blow the competition away, yet doesn’t get rewarded.

Coach Tom’s Short Stop- Willie Bloomquist, Arizona Diamondbacks

Actual Short Stop- Rafael Furcal, St.Louis Cardinals

With short stops looking rather weak this year, Willie Bloomquist would be my starting short stop if I were choosing the starting lineup. Bloomquist is batting  .295 on the season in comparison to Furcal’s .276. Most staggering is that Bloomquist is peaking over the last month hitting .341 in June, while Furcal has been on the down slope hitting just .150 in the month of June. To boast his numbers Bloomquist has just 3 errors on the season, 4 better than Furcal who is sitting at 7. Bloomquist should be starting and couldn’t even find his way on to the all star team as a reserve let alone a starter. Fans got it wrong all over again.

Coach Tom’s Outfielders- Andrew McCutchen, Pittsburgh Pirates, Melky Cabrera, San Francisco Giants, Carlos Beltran, St.Louis Cardinals.

Actual Outfielders- Matt Kemp, Los Angeles Dodgers, Melky Cabrera, San Francisco Giants, Carlos Beltran, St.Louis Cardinals.

Lets start with what we agree with and that is Melky Cabrera, LF for the Giants. Cabrera is hitting .352 with 111 hits, 16 doubles, 7 triples, 7 homers, 39 RBIs, 10 stolen bases,and 23 walks on the season. Well deserving to start in the all star. Matt Kemp would be starting if it wasn’t for his early season injury to his hamstring. Kemp was batting .355 with 12 homers and 28 RBIs before being injured on may 30th. Andrew McCutchen will being starting and is still very well deserving of the start as he is hitting .355 with 101 hits, 17 doubles, 4 triples, 15 homers, 52 RBIs, and has the Pirates just 1 game out of first place. The last spot is Carlos Beltran. Beltran is hitting .308 with 84 hits, 10 doubles, 1 triple, 20 homers, 63 RBIs, and 7 stolen bases on the season. Beltran’s consistant play throughout the season have left him far above any other right fielder in the National League.

So here’s both my views and America’s views on who should/is starting the all star game for the N.L.

Coach Tom

The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

The Good

R.A. Dickey- The Mets knuckleballer R.A. Dickey won his 6th straight start and in similar fashion to his last outing. For the 2nd straight start R.A. Dickey gave up just 1 hit. Dickey went 9 scoreless innings while 13 lowering his ERA to a staggering 2.00 on the season. Dickey now leads the league in wins (11), strikeouts(101), ERA(2.00), and whip(0.89).

Joey Votto- The Reds 1st baseman added to his league leading average to .368 going 2-4 with a homer and 2 RBIs in Mondays 9-10 loss against the Cleveland Indians. After lossing his 14 game hit streak, Votto has started another  7 game hit streak.

Brian Bixler- The Astros 2nd baseman improved his average to .313 on the season after going 3-5 including a homer, a double, 2 runs scored, and 3 RBIs. It was Bixler’s first home run of the season as he has just played in 13 games this year after returning from injury in April.

Cubs bats- The Chicago Cubs batters slugged 5 homers, 12 runs, and 15 hits against the crosstown rival Chicago White Sox. 5 Cubs players had at least 2 hits including Castro(3), Lahair(2), Soriano(2), Valbuena(3), and Soto(2) and 8 of the 9 starters had a hit. This was the Cubs highest scoring game of the season.

Aramis Ramirez- The Brewers 3rd baseman improved his average by .10 points to .262 after going 3-3 including a double, a homer, a walk, and 3 RBIs. Aramis went 3-3 a day after having just 1 hit in 7 at bats.

Aaron Hill- The Diamondbacks 2nd baseman had a career day going 4-4 including a homer, a triple, a double, and a single to wrap up his first career cycle. Hill is the 297th player in MLB history to hit for the cycle. Hill improved his average by .12 points to .284 on the season.

Melky Cabrera- The Giants outfielder continued to keep pace with Joey Votto on the N.L. lead for batting average going 3-5 including 3 singles while improving his average to .364 on the season.

The Bad

Pablo Sandoval- the Giants DH for the day went 0-4 with 2 strikeouts on the day. Sandoval’s average dropped .12 points to .302 on season ending his 7 game hit streak.

David DeJesus- The Cubs outfielder was the only Cub batter to not have a hit against the Chicago White Sox. DeJesus went 0-3 Monday while the rest of the team had 15 hits.

Mike Minor- The Braves Starting pitcher went 5.2 innings while giving up 4 hits, 4 runs, and 3 walks. Minor’s ERA is now a staggering 6.04 on the season and Minor has won just 1 game over his last 10 games.

The Ugly

Brett Myers- The Astros relief pitcher was only able to get 2 outs in his outing Monday against the Kansas City Royals giving up 8 hits and 5 earned runs. This was by far Myers worst outing of the season raising his ERA  from 1.99 to 3.86 on the season

 

 

Coach Tom