In light of last year's All-Star Game, when pitchers who weren't supposed to pitch ended up working because the game went to 15 innings, Major League Baseball on Wednesday expanded the rosters for this year's game, adding a 13th pitcher for each team.Running out of pitchers was also an issue in 2002, which led to tying in World Series home-field advantage to the All-Star Game.
So now, each team will have 33 players. After the eight starters in each league are chosen by fan balloting, players' votes will choose eight more position players plus five starting pitchers and three relievers. The two managers, in conjunction with MLB, will then pick eight more players - making sure every team, even Oakland, is represented.
Those 64 players will be announced Sunday at 1 PM ET.
Then a fans' "final vote" will pick the last player in each league from a list of five via a four-day, on-line ballot.
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7-01-2009 @ 7:41PM
TheGSF said...
It would be awesome if the next couple of years, the game ended in a huge margin of victory, like 11-3 or something like that.
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7-01-2009 @ 8:58PM
Grer The Sarcastic Bastard said...
The extra pitcher should be someone whose pitch day would've been that day anyway, staying on rotation, & should only be used if the game goes extras.
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