(NY Times)
The 2010 MLB All Star rosters were announced today and two Mets will be heading over to the West Coast to represent the National League team. The first one is no surprise, David Wright. The question about Wright would be if he would make the team as the starter. It was a little over a week ago that he was 130,000 votes down. However, he rallied and he will start at the hot corner. This of course makes sense because how can a player be in the MVP conversation and not be starting his position during the All-Star game. For Wright this will be his 5th trip the game in his 7th season in the bigs. All 5 selections have been consecutive.
The second Met was a surprise. Jose Reyes was selected thanks to the injury to Troy Tulo. At the beginning of the season it didn't look like Jose would deserve a trip to the game but he really turned it around in May and started to flash some power. It will be nice to see Reyes and Wright back in the game together since they really are linked together in their history with the Mets. This will be Reyes' 3rd trip the game.
The only “snub” on the Mets will be Mike Pelfrey. For a while it looked like Barajas really deserved it but he cooled off enough to sort of exit the conversation. Pelfrey is a victim of two things. The first that this is the year for pitchers in the National League and there are a lot of really good starters. Second, every team needs one representative. This combination keeps Pelfrey, sadly, on the other side of the All-Star door. If Strasburg made the team though, I would have been livid about this.
