AL All-Star Pitchers

Awesome weekend for the Amazin's- the pitching is untouchable, Delgado looks like he's going to at least equal last year's performance and the team managed to win three games with virtually no contribution from David Wright at the plate. All they have to do now is win one or two more games than the Phillies the rest of the year.

I had great seats on Sunday- field level down the left field line, and couldn't have asked for a better day. I got to the game early to take advantage of my Diamond Club pass, which I've never been to before, and was thoroughly underwhelmed by the experience. The Club itself is basically a Mets-themed Ground Round with a ridiculously long wait (30 minutes? Really? For chicken fingers?). The Mets' "Hall of Fame" is even worse- the busts are great but I think my parents did a better job displaying my CYO swimming trophies. They couldn't dedicate a wall or anything? I know the building's getting torn down this year, but they've been there for forty years. Shameful. I hope the Wilpons planned on a little something more to put in their great monument to Dodger history. We'll see.

Okay, for the AL pitchers:

Starters
Name Win Shares/WARP3/VORP/ERA+
Lee 13/9.9/41.4/182
Halladay 13/9.1/39.1/151
Duchsherer 11/7.3/38.8/210
Danks 10/8.2/36.2/162
Saunders 12/6.8/25.2/134
Hernandez 10/7.6/25.5/134
Santana 10/6.6/27.9/123
Marcum 9/6.0/29.3/154
Greinke 10/6.5/26.6/123
Lester 9/4.9/26.2/128
Matsuzaka 8/5.7/24.8/163
Lackey 9/4.6/23.5/167
Harden 8/4.3/25.6/164
Galarraga 8/4.6/14.3/127
Pettitte 8/6.2/14.0/101
Guthrie 8/5.4/22.9/120
Sabathia 8/6.5/19.4/110
Floyd 9/4.5/9.5/119

The first two are easy, after that it's a toss-up. I'll go with Joe Saunders' Win Shares, and Justin Duchscherer's and John Danks' VORP and ERA+.

Starting Pitchers
Starter: Cliff Lee
Reserve #1: Roy Halladay
Reserve #2: Justin Duchscherer
Reserve #3: John Danks
Reserve #4: Joe Saunders

Relievers
Name Win Shares/WARP3/VORP/ERA+
Rivera 10/9.8/20.0/384
Soria 9/7.0/17.5/292
Nathan 7/6.4/18.5/348
Rodriguez 7/6.9/13.7/175
Mahay 7/4.0/17.1/233
Papelbon 7/5.3/8.2/178
Jenks 6/4.8/12.2/222
Chamberlain* 6/4.2/18.1/156
Downs 6/3.4/17.3/242
Howell 6/3.3/13.6/153
*- now starting

Not a huge surprise that Mariano Freaking Rivera makes the team. Pretty huge surprise that Kansas City has the best 1-2 bullpen punch in the majors.

Starter (Closer?): Mariano Rivera
Reserve: Joakim Soria

And that'll do it for the AL team. Hopefully I can finish up the NL team before the break is over.