be summoned to Stars game It is for a baseball player like a promotion for a soldier, an insignia that will always be attached to his uniform and will reveal part of his career. It’s a distinction that reaches fewer than 15% of the players who have come through the league since the game was established in 1933, according to Baseball-Reference.
So challenging is a call that the multi-year contracts signed by the players offer financial incentives. Emmanuel Clase will receive a $100,000 bonus for his first visit by the Guardians, the same amount as the Cardinals’ Albert Pujols for his last.
The Dominican case, only 108 of the 871 players who have reached the Big leagues They have that asterisk on their portals that indicates the times they went through the Mid-Campaign Classic. It is 12%.
If Alex Rodríguez lived the experience as early as 20 years old, another player also with statistics for the Hall of Fame like Adrián Beltré had to wait until he was 31 to feel those butterflies in his stomach. Nelson Cruz lived it at 28, but none had to wait as late as Fernando Rodney, who was already 35 when he attended the first of his three expeditions and was 39 for the last time.
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But the badge of being an All-Star has a brighter color if it is a starting player than if it comes as a reserve. Although Juan Marichal and Felipe Alou placed the Dominican flag for the first time in the contest in 1962, Julián Javier was the first starter, a year later, when he started on the second cushion of the National League with the Cardinals uniform.
Of the 822 headline seats that have been presented until the 2021 edition, there are 97 occupied by Dominicans, that is, 11.8%. They are divided between 35 in the National League and 61 in the American for those 39 Quisqueyans. Only 17 of them repeated in the starting line-up.
Gary Sánchez sealed the last hole that remained to be filled in 2019 when he became the first Duartiano receiver to start in the game. Tony Peña, the other mask that has arrived, attended four times as part of the Old Circuit reserve in his years with the Cardinals.
An album in the American that began to fill George Bell in 1987 as a left fielder, but accelerated a decade later when A-Rod, Manny Ramírez, Alfonso Soriano, David Ortiz, Vladimir Guerrero, Robinson Canó and José Bautista became regulars. animators of the game that splits the Big Show campaign into two halves.
Juan Marichal (1965 and 67), Mario Soto (1983), Pedro Martínez (1999), Ubaldo Jiménez (2010) and Johnny Cueto (2016) earned the opportunity to open the match.
On Tuesday at Dodger Stadium, as long as there is agreement on a possible strike called by a park employee, there will be 13 Dominican players who will parade through the park that has attracted the highest attendance in the last 10 seasons. rafael devers and Vladimir Guerrero Jr., will start for the second year in a row and Manny Machado will do it for the third time.
Pujols will go to Los Angeles for the 11th time, this time at the commissioner’s invitation as part of his final campaign, and it is likely that he will work out at least one shift. Although he debuted in 2001, he got his first start in 2003, in left field.
A-Rod (14), Manny (12), Marichal (10) and Ortiz (10) lead the quisqueyanas participations.
