Your MLB AllStar Team

[Providence A's]

C Pudge
1B Teixeira
2B Loretta
3B Chavez
SS Jeter (just cause he's a team player...if not Tejada)
OF Beltran
OF Ichiro
OF Vlad
DH Ortiz
SP Santana, Peavy, Livan Hernandez (mr. complete game, most innings last year, tons of k's), Zito, Harden
Closer Gagne

[Steak]

There are so many good young pitchers in major league baseball that you can do no wrong picking them.

[HuskerFan2002]

C: Varitek
1B: Pujols
2B: Soriano
3B: Rolen
SS: Furcal
LF: Ramirez
CF: Beltran
RF: Guerrero
SP: Schmidt
RP: Gagne

[Cubsfolyfe]

1b - Todd Helton
2b - Alfonso Soriano
3b - Scott Rolen
ss - Alex Rodriguez
lf - Manny Ramirez
cf - Ichiro
rf - Vlad
c - Pudge
sp - Johan Santana
closer - Lidge
manager - Bobby Cox

[McKain]

Doing a simplified one, I think mine would look something like...

C - Ivan Rodriguez (I think long-term, I would much prefer Joe Mauer or Victor Martinez, but right now, neither of them can beat Pudge's offense, though the gap is closing defensively)
1B - Albert Pujols (though again, long-term, easily I would take Mark Teixeira, he just is not there yet)
2B - Mark Loretta (close between him and Jeff Kent, I give Loretta an edge because he has the defensive edge... Marcus Giles is hovering around third, and given time, he will probably overtake this slot. Soriano isn't even in the picture for me because he has such poor defense and isn't really going to be a great player in any year when he doesn't have at least 35 HRs and 35 SBs)
SS - Miguel Tejada (pretty easy one; without Alex Rodriguez at short, Tejada is clearly the best offensive one left, and is the second best defender of the "big" shortstops, behind Renteria)
3B - Scott Rolen (one of the deeper/harder choices here; Rodriguez is great, Beltre has great defense and if he maintains even 85% of last season's production he'd be up at the top, and then there's Melvin Mora/Aramis Ramirez/Eric Chavez/Mike Lowell, and Hank Blalock and David Wright on the rise... I think this will change to Wright after this season or the next, though)
LF - Barry Bonds (not as clearcut a choice as it has been in these past years, but I'll still have to go with Barry. Manny's close, but... boy, he sure sucks at defense, doesn't he? Adam Dunn is going to be the choice here very shortly)
CF - Carlos Beltran (tough one here, too, with Jim Edmonds and JD Drew and Beltran being three of my top picks for CF. Drew's problem is that nobody knows how consistent he'll be or how his injury situation is, and Edmonds lacks the speed of Beltran though it's pretty even with those two otherwise)
RF - Vladimir Guerrero (Lance Berkman makes this close, but he gives up a little power, a lot of speed, and some defense to Vlad.. plus I gotta stick with the former Expo)
DH - Travis Hafner (I don't know why. I really don't. David Ortiz probably has more power, but I'm tired of picking the better current player, so I'm going with someone who will be better in the future)
SP - Johan Santana (He's got youth and ability on his side right now, plus he's a lefty. No other choice that's really close, in my mind)
CL - Joe Nathan (I think Gagne is probably the better closer right now, and maybe even Mariano Rivera, but Nathan was just ridiculous last season and has plenty of room for improvement)

[RockSports17]

3B - Eric Rolen

Eric is pretty good, but I think his brother Scott is way better......

[ATLien]

SS: Furcal

[McKain]

You know nothing of the powers of Eric Rolen!

NOTHING!!!



That'd be better if you could see the Cardinals uniform more.

[Providence A's]

and if the A's lettering wasn't backwards. What is up with that?

[McKain]

I did that intentionally for effect.

It makes it look like some bizzaro world genetic mutation betwene Chavez and Rolen

[Providence A's]

oh ok...I got that it was supposed to be Scotty Chavez, but I thought I was dyslexic for a second there

[McKain]

Really, I did it because there's virtually no good frontal shots of Eric Chavez online, and not so many of Scott Rolen, so I took one of Chavez and flipped it horizontally so I could put it on the Rolen pic.

[BMW]

C: Ivan Rodriguez
1B: Albert Pujols
2B: Miguel Tejada (Yeah, I'd move him over)
SS: Alex Rodriguez (Him too)
3B: Scott Rolen
LF: Carl Crawford
CF: Carlos Beltran
RF: Vladimir Guerrero
DH: Manny Ramirez

SP: Johan Santana
SP: Ben Sheets
SP: Carlos Zambrano
SP: Tim Hudson
SP: Roy Oswalt

I prefer youth, can you tell?
BW

[BMW]

Doing a simplified one, I think mine would look something like...
1B - Albert Pujols (though again, long-term, easily I would take Mark Teixeira, he just is not there yet)

long term you'd rather have Teixeira? That is ridiculous.

There is absolutely no reason. Sure Pujols is older, but I dont think that 3 months is going to see Pujols retire any earlier than MT.

Is it because Pujols has been the most consistant hitter the game has seen in a long time? I mean to bat .310+ AVG, 180+ Hits, 30+ HRs, 120+ RBIs, with less than 100K's in each of his first four seasons.

Meanwhile in his two years Teixeira hasn't batted over .285, hit 30+ HRs once, hasnt yet had over 120 RBIs, hasnt yet had over 155 hits, and has struck out over 100 times twice already.

I like Teixeira, but to say that he is going to be better than Pujols, is naive.
BW

[McKain]

If you actually think Pujols is 25, while knowing full well he's from the Dominican Republic, then I'd say you're the one who is naive.