They're All All-Stars In My Book

Congratulations are in order. Scott Podsednik, Ricky Romero, and Mike Pelfrey, I'm looking at you.

That's because, as mlb.com proudly declares, the 2010 Major League Baseball All-Star Game voting is officially open. Now that we've seen about nine percent of what the players are going to do this year, it seems that we're ready to call it.

As you've no doubt realized, what I'm doing is making an argument for how ridiculous it is to vote for the All-Star Game this early in the year (or to have fans vote for it at all, but that's another post for another time). However, I could just as easily have made my point by coming at it from an opposite direction. If we're voting now, then Podsednik, Romero, and Pelfrey DO deserve to be in the running, but at this point in the year, they're not going to be. When you vote after 15 games, people are going to go with the names they know, which means the superstars will make the cut no matter how they've started the year.

Of course, that's a problem no matter what (again, I'm resisting the temptation--for now--to go after fan voting in general). However, having fans vote without any information on what kind of season players are actually having only makes things worse.

But hey, this is the way we're going, so let's run with it. With his 1.000 batting average and 2.500 slugging percentage, Darnell McDonald is a lock as your starting All-Star CF.