All-MLB Team: Who's on yours?

[eye4talent]

With the MVP thread raging, I thought I'd expand the discussion a little and see what kind of consensus we might be able to come up with for an All-MLB team. (A consensus might be wishful thinking.)

Below are all the candidates I think are worth considering, though there could be some I missed. Starting pitching, for instance, is a little more difficult to nail down.

The official MLB team includes 5 SP, 2 RP, and picks three OF instead of one each from LF/CF/RF. I separated the outfielders out by LF/CF/RF, but I say just pick three OF.

Let's see what you come up with!

C Salvador Perez, Travis d'Arnaud, JT Realmuto

1B Freddie Freeman, Jose Abreu, Dominic Smith, Luke Voit

2B D.J. LeMahieu, Brandon Lowe

3B Jose Ramirez, Manny Machado, Anthony Rendon

SS Corey Seager, Tim Anderson, Trea Turner, Fernando Tatis

LF Juan Soto, Marcell Ozuna (DH), Eloy Jimenez, Adam Duvall

CF Mike Trout, Ronald Acuna, Mike Yastrzemski, George Springer

RF Mookie Betts, Wil Myers, Bryce Harper, Teoscar Hernandez, Michael Conforto

DH Nelson Cruz, Marcell Ozuna (LF), Franmil Reyes

SP Shane Bieber, Trevor Bauer, Corbin Burnes, Yu Darvish, Jacob deGrom, Lance Lynn, Kyle Hendricks, Dinelson Lamet, Dallas Keuchel, Gerrit Cole, Hyun-Jin Ryu, Kenta Maeda, Zach Davies, Zack Wheeler, Chris Bassitt, Clayton Kershaw, Max Fried, Lucas Giolito

RP Liam Hendriks, Alex Colome, Devin Williams, Brad Hand, Drew Pomeranz, Jeremy Jeffries, Trevor Rosenthal, Nick Anderson

[Hollywood42]

C- Salvador Perez
1B- Freddie Freeman
2B- DJ LeMahieu
3B- Jose Ramirez (won't argue with people that pick Rendon, I don't like that JoRam was bad for like half the season)
SS- Trea Turner
OF- Mookie Betts, Juan Soto, Mike Trout
DH- Nelson Cruz
SP- Shane Bieber, Trevor Bauer, Jacob deGrom, Yu Darvish, Kenta Maeda
RP- Devin Williams, Drew Pomeranz (Liam Hendriks is close, but Pom has just 5 fewer innings and has not given up a run all year)

[Archangel1775]

C Salvador Perez
1B Jose Abreu
2B D.J. LeMahieu
3B Manny Machado
SS Fernando Tatis
LF Juan Soto
CF Mike Trout
RF Mookie Betts
DH Nelson Cruz
SP Shane Bieber

SS was the toughest position with how good Seager and Turner are. I probably have Turner ahead of Seager though.

[eye4talent]

Originally Posted by Hollywood42

C- Salvador Perez
1B- Freddie Freeman
2B- DJ LeMahieu
3B- Jose Ramirez (won't argue with people that pick Rendon, I don't like that JoRam was bad for like half the season)
SS- Trea Turner
OF- Mookie Betts, Juan Soto, Mike Trout
DH- Nelson Cruz
SP- Shane Bieber, Trevor Bauer, Jacob deGrom, Yu Darvish, Kenta Maeda
RP- Devin Williams, Drew Pomeranz (Liam Hendriks is close, but Pom has just 5 fewer innings and has not given up a run all year)

Pomeranz! I errantly left him off the nomination list. But isn't it hard not to have a closer in there?

[eye4talent]

Originally Posted by Archangel1775

C Salvador Perez
1B Jose Abreu
2B D.J. LeMahieu
3B Manny Machado
SS Fernando Tatis
LF Juan Soto
CF Mike Trout
RF Mookie Betts
DH Nelson Cruz
SP Shane Bieber

SS was the toughest position with how good Seager and Turner are. I probably have Turner ahead of Seager though.

Frankly, I wouldn't have a problem with any of the four shortstops, but Seager is my guy.

[eye4talent]

C - Salvador Perez
1B - Freddie Freeman
2B - D.J. LeMahieu
3B - Jose Ramirez
SS - Corey Seager
OF - Juan Soto
OF - Mike Trout
OF - Ronald Acuna
DH - Marcell Ozuna

SP - Shane Bieber
SP - Trevor Bauer
SP - Dallas Keuchel
SP - Dinelson Lamet
SP - Jacob deGrom

RP - Liam Hendriks
RP - Devin Williams

[AcunaMatata03]

Best possible team I could put together. Not my ALL MLB team for this season.

C - Will Smith
1B - Freddie Freeman
2B - Ozzie Albies
SS - Fernando Tatis Jr.
3B - Anthony Rendon
OF - Mookie Betts
OF - Mike Trout
OF - Ronald Acuna Jr.
DH - Juan Soto

P - Jacob deGrom
P - Gerrit Cole
P - Jack Flaherty
P - Walker Buehler
P - Shane Bieber

Closer - Charlie Culberson

[Hollywood42]

Somewhat, saves is one of the next stats up to dive in popularity, but they definitely help with awards and recognition. Just hard for me to leave Pomeranz out when he literally hasn't given up a run this year, and is only a couple innings behind the other top guys

Originally Posted by eye4talent

Pomeranz! I errantly left him off the nomination list. But isn't it hard not to have a closer in there?

[pewe]

Originally Posted by eye4talent

With the MVP thread raging, I thought I'd expand the discussion a little and see what kind of consensus we might be able to come up with for an All-MLB team. (A consensus might be wishful thinking.)

Below are all the candidates I think are worth considering, though there could be some I missed. Starting pitching, for instance, is a little more difficult to nail down.

The official MLB team includes 5 SP, 2 RP, and picks three OF instead of one each from LF/CF/RF. I separated the outfielders out by LF/CF/RF, but I say just pick three OF.

Let's see what you come up with!

C Salvador Perez, Travis d'Arnaud, JT Realmuto

1B Freddie Freeman, Jose Abreu, Dominic Smith, Luke Voit

2B D.J. LeMahieu, Brandon Lowe

3B Jose Ramirez, Manny Machado, Anthony Rendon

SS Corey Seager, Tim Anderson, Trea Turner, Fernando Tatis

LF Juan Soto, Marcell Ozuna (DH), Eloy Jimenez, Adam Duvall

CF Mike Trout, Ronald Acuna, Mike Yastrzemski, George Springer

RF Mookie Betts, Wil Myers, Bryce Harper, Teoscar Hernandez, Michael Conforto

DH Nelson Cruz, Marcell Ozuna (LF), Franmil Reyes

SP Shane Bieber, Trevor Bauer, Corbin Burnes, Yu Darvish, Jacob deGrom, Lance Lynn, Kyle Hendricks, Dinelson Lamet, Dallas Keuchel, Gerrit Cole, Hyun-Jin Ryu, Kenta Maeda, Zach Davies, Zack Wheeler, Chris Bassitt, Clayton Kershaw, Max Fried, Lucas Giolito

RP Liam Hendriks, Alex Colome, Devin Williams, Brad Hand, Drew Pomeranz, Jeremy Jeffries, Trevor Rosenthal, Nick Anderson

I’d add a vote for Verdugo in RF... leads AL RF in fWAR, all MLB RF in BA and defensive performance.

He was an amazing replacement for Betts. Pretty fortunate how well that worked out.


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[LVDan]

Pretty cool that one of the best teams(TB) really has no one that sniffs this list.


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[Neal]

C JT Realmuto

1B Freddie Freeman

2B D.J. LeMahieu

3B Jose Ramirez

SS Tim Anderson

LF Juan Soto

CF Mike Trout

RF Mookie Betts

DH Nelson Cruz

SP Shane Bieber, Trevor Bauer, Jacob deGrom, Gerrit Cole, Hyun-Jin Ryu

RP Drew Pomeranz, Nick Anderson

[PejaD]

SP - Shane Bieber
RP - Liam Hendricks
C - Salvador Perez
1B - Freddie Freeman
2B - DJ LeMahieu
3B - Jose Ramirez
SS - Fernando Tatis Jr
LF - Juan Soto
CF - Mike Trout
RF - Mookie Betts
DH - Marcell Ozuna

[eye4talent]

https://www.mlb.com/news/2020-all-ml...team-breakdown

The All-MLB nominees were just announced. What are your picks?

Please keep in mind that Randy Arozarena had, like, 5 regular-season at-bats...

[PKIPP]

Miguel Cabrera

Edit: I'm laughing so hard there's 0 Tigers nominated.. Pain