Baseball's Early Season All Stars & All Flops

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-Digger's Daily-

Baseball 2009 has been full of surprises from teams to invidual players. MLB.com is hosting its' annual fan balloting for this summer's All Star Game. I've put together my list of early season MLB All Stars & All Flops teams.

All Stars
1B Albert Pujols (STL) (majors top player, .326, 13 HR)
2B Aaron Hill (TOR) (career year, 11 HR, .344)
3B Ryan Zimmerman (WAS) (30 game hit streak, .355, 10 HR)
SS Jason Bartlett (TB) (career year, .379, 5 HR, 12 SB)
LF Raul Ibanez (PHI) (early season MVP candidate, .349, 15 HR)
CF Carlos Beltran (NYM) (.370, 1.051 OPS)
RF Nick Markakis (BAL) (.318, 34 RBI)
C Victor Martinez (CLE) (.400, 14 2B, 30 RBI)
DH Adam Lind (TOR) (.311, 14 2B, 35 RBI)
SP Zack Greinke (KC) (7-1, 0.82)
CL Heath Bell (SD) (1-0, 11/11 Saves)
MGR Cito Gaston (TOR) (27-16)

All Flops
1B Jason Giambi (.198, 3 HR, AL 1B low .658 OPS)
2B Dan Uggla (FLA) (.204 BA, .394 SLG)
3B Garrett Atkins (COL) (.194, 3 HR)
SS Jimmy Rollins (PHI) (.234 BA, .275 OBA, career low 3.81 RF)
LF Chase Headley (SD) (.237, 3 HR)
CF Chris Young (AZ) (.171, .219 OBA, 38 K)
RF Brian Giles (SD) (.166, 2 HR)
C Geovany Soto (CHI) (.202, 1 HR)
DH David Ortiz (BOS) (.210, 1 HR)
SP Jose Contreras (CHI) (0-5, 8.19)
CL BJ Ryan (TOR) (continues to be a bust, 7.27 ERA, 2 blown saves)
MGR Clint Hurdle (COL) (15-24)

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