First off I just want to mention that there are 75 All-Stars this year YES 75. That is enough players to roster an entire third team.
Of those 75 Twenty of them are All-Star Rookie Cup Honorees including Six from the 2019 TASR Squad. Here is a complet list of tonights TASRs:
There are 3 Phillies on the List but only Alec Bohm made the squad as a member of the Phillies.
The showing by the 2020 class is not a surprise to TASR fans. At the time their combined WAR number was the strongest of any class ever. We will cover this in the future but 4 years later they rank 3rd - one of those more recent years, 2023, did quite well with 3 members while the other, 2024, did manage a single.
The one year missing from the 12 year span of teams 2013-24 is 2015. The most prominent players from that team are George Springer, Xander Bogaerts, The Phillies Nick Castellanos, and the potentially retired Jose Abreu.
It is also worth noting that a handful of players like Paul Skenes, Jackson Merrill and Shota Imanaga are rookies and could show up on this years Cup Squad (2025 Cards)
Cover Card
Turns out the elder statesmen of TASR players on the squad is Philadelphia's own Bryce Harper. Maybe it's because I saw Harper in the Minors when I was in my mid 40s but it is very disconcerting to me for him to be the eldest of anything. To be clear he is not the oldest player on the team, without doing any real poking around one of my guesses would be Professional Frisbee Golfer Seth Lugo at 34.242.
Enjoy the All-Star game tonight and look for your favorite TASR players who make up more than a quarter of the participants
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A. 75? Interesting to see an odd number. Interesting that one team had one less player than another.
ReplyDeleteB. Great post. I love baseball card trivia like this and appreciate the research that went into it.