All-Star ballot stuffing time

Since I am obviously a well respected internet baseball bloggister, I feel that it is my duty to post the all-star ballots that I submitted last night. To me, the all-star game is a scrimmage game, a game where the fans vote on who they want to see. So, I vote for my favorite players, not necessarily the best ones, as you might be able to tell. I used my 25 allotted entries on these guys....

American League
*1B Jason Giambi (the Giambino, with mustache)
*2B Aaron Hill (sick defensive secondbaseman, underrated bat)
*SS Edgar Renteria (had to vote for someone from Colombia, and Edgar is still sweet at SS)
*3B Miguel Cabrera (with Edgar, this makes an all South American leftside of the infield, and I still think Cabrera is one of the top-5 hitters in baseball)
*C Joe Mauer (sweetest swing in the game)
*OF Carlos Quentin (fucking monster, will be dropping bombs for a long time)
*OF Josh Hamilton (the 'Natural', 26 tatoos, 3 suicide attempts, snorted Colombian white gold for over 3 years)
*OF Manny Ramirez (best hitter ever, best baseball character ever)
*DH Travis Hafner (yeah, bad season, injured too, but his nickname is "Pronk")


National League
*1B Prince Fielder (he's a big man)
*2B Orlando Hudson (styling secondbaseman)
*SS Stephen Drew (making up for his brothers, Tulowitzki would have had this vote except for the fact that he's been dead all year)
*3B David Wright (had to pick a Met, Wright has been very consistent, played great defense, and hasn't missed a single inning)
*C Brian Schneider (wow, there are some hurting catchers in the NL, I like Russ Martin and Kendall, but Schneider has really shown me how bad LoDuca was)
*OF Eric Byrnes (my favorite player, known as 'Captain America' in the Dominican)
*OF Juan Pierre (freestyle rapper, never Ks, old school)
*OF Ryan Church (rounds out the same NL outfield group that I voted for last year)


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Aaron Heilman has pitched poorly to say the least. However, he has seemed to be a little unlucky. Every groundball seems to find a hole, and every blooper seems to fall in. So I looked up his BABIP (batting average on balls in play). BABIP is usually around .290 and independent upon how a pitcher is throwing. Basically, if a pitcher is showing a very high average here, it's bad luck. And if he has a very low average here, he's getting some good luck. Right now, Heilman is allowing a .344 BABIP, way above the average. I'm thinking he's bound to get some of those groundballs to start going at infielders and start moving his BABIP back towards the mean. However, his BB/9 is way up, as he is already closing in on last year's walk total. He may not be able to determine where batters hit the ball, but he can control the walks.


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Yesterday, Pedro had a little spat with Marlon Byrd after Byrd stepped out of the batter's box during Pedro's windup in the 6th inning. For some reason the umpire granted timeout. It was the second time during the game that Byrd did this. Pedro was pissed, and he played the waiting game with Byrd before he flew out to CF. It reminded me of one of the great Pedro moments. A few years ago, when he was on the Red Sox still, pitching against the Yankees, Gary Sheffield tried the same shit with Pedro, stepping out twice in the same at-bat. Pedro just stared him down, waited, then put a fastball right between his shoulder blades.