Baseball All-Star Rosters (mostly) announced

The rosters for Major League Baseball's All-Star game have been announced, except for a set of five players from each league for whom the fans can now vote (and for the replacement of injured players, of course). Here is the American League roster and the National League one.

As usual, there are people who should be there (such as the Phillies' Pat Burrell, though he's one of the 5 NL players who the fans can now vote in) and those who really, really shouldn't (Jason Varitek? You've got to be fucking kidding me!).

By the way, in my opinion Tim Lincecum (who is extremely awesome, by the way) deserves to be the NL's starting pitcher and Cliff Lee deserves to be the AL's starting pitcher.

The worst selection is clearly Jason Varitek, and it's not even close. (Apparently, the players are the ones who voted him in.) He's been craptacular this year, so it's not like it's even somebody having a meh year. He's been so bad that he ought to actually be relegated to the bench at this point. So let's send him to the All-Star game instead, eh? There are a number of candidates for worst ommission, but I don't think any of them are as blatant as the Varitek thing because there is a numbers game after all. Putting Brian Wilson on the NL roster instead of deserving starters like Cole Hamels or Johan Santana (or even a reliever having a better year, such as Takashi Saito) is bad, but not close to the Varitek level.

Hmmm... looking at ESPN, it seems that the Sabathia trade between the Indians and Brewers has indeed gone through. I already thought the Brewers were going to win the NL Central, and now I really think they're going to win that division.