My Mid-June All-Star Picks

I love baseball season. It's almost as good as football season and the college basketball season. I say almost, because I only start to get enthralled in the baseball season around 2 months in, while I am fixed on football and college basketball from beginning to end.

With this blog still in its virtual infancy, I've decided to start up a couple of traditions that I hope will become long-standing. We'll start with this weekly update of my picks for the All-Star Game. Tomorrow will begin my weekly "Power Poll", for lack of a better name right now. I'm sure I'll figure out something a little less "used", shall I say by the time I post it up.

So, without further delay, my picks for the 2007 MLB All-Star Game. All stats prior to the games played on June 17th.

American League

C- Jorge Posada, NYY (.347 BA/8 HR/41 RBI)
1B- Justin Morneau, MIN (.275 BA/19 HR/51 RBI)
2B- B.J. Upton, TB (.320 BA/9 HR/.545 SLG)
3B- Alex Rodriguez, NYY (.309 BA/26 HR/70 RBI)
SS- Derek Jeter, NYY (.343 BA/49 R/.421 OBP)
OF- Magglio Ordonez, DET (.367 BA/61 RBI/.653 SLG)
OF- Vladmir Guerrero, LAA (.329 BA/61 RBI/.565 SLG)
OF- Torii Hunter, MIN (.307 BA/54 RBI/.560 SLG)

National League

C-Russell Martin, LAD (.288 BA/7 HR/41 RBI)
1B- Prince Fielder, MIL (.291 BA/24 HR/53 RBI)
2B-Chase Utley, PHI (.314 BA/12 HR/54 RBI)
3B- Miguel Cabrera, FLA (.337 BA/16 HR/51 RBI)
SS- Jose Reyes, NYM (.319 BA/48 R/37 SB)
OF-Matt Holliday, COL (.360 BA/52 RBI/.601 SLG)
OF- Carlos Lee, HOU (..305 BA/55 RBI/.514 SLG)
OF- Ken Griffey Jr., CIN (.288 BA/18 HR/.575 SLG)

LEADING VOTE GETTER, BOTH LEAGUES: Alex Rodriguez, NYY


Well, those are my picks as of right now. Yes, I know, my National League is a joke. And I also know that I picked 3 Yankees for the A.L. squad, despite the fact that I despise the team. Let the debates begin.