{"id":4165,"date":"2011-06-29T12:33:23","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T17:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/?p=4165"},"modified":"2011-06-29T12:33:23","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T17:33:23","slug":"as-the-final-all-star-votes-are-tallied-let-the-complaining-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/4165","title":{"rendered":"As the final All-Star votes are tallied, let the complaining begin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4166\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/332653765.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4166\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4166\" src=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/332653765-1024x613.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"574\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/332653765-1024x613.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/332653765-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 574px) 100vw, 574px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4166\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picture via @Stuwass55, Twitter. <\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As the above photo indicates, Tigers take their baseball civics seriously.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But it&#8217;s easy to see why they might be miffed if <a href=\"http:\/\/search.espn.go.com\/alex-avila\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Avila<\/a>, who trails the Yankees&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/6390\/russell-martin\" target=\"_self\">Russell Martin<\/a> by about 500,000 votes, doesn&#8217;t land a starting catcher role in the All-Star Game.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Avila leads all catchers with a .304 batting average &#8211; 74 points above Martin. He has also thrown out 38 percent of prospective base-stealers, which sits 9 percent above Martin&#8217;s league average rate. Additionally, Avila touts a league best RBI total of 45, and his home run total of 10 is third in the league and bested only by those hitting at least 60 points below him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Yes, as a huge Tiger fan (At age 7, I names my trio of pet snails Sparky, Mickey and Cecil), I&#8217;m hardly objective here. But I&#8217;m always frustrated when All-Star voting is driven by city size rather than performance.<\/p>\n<p>Is there anyone out there who actually votes on merit? I try to. But I must admit that I tend not to vote for players, who, for mostly silly reasons, I&#8217;ve decided are jerk wads.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the above photo indicates, Tigers take their baseball civics seriously. But it&#8217;s easy to see why they might be miffed if Alex Avila, who trails the Yankees&#8217; Russell Martin by about 500,000 votes, doesn&#8217;t land a starting catcher role in the All-Star Game. Avila leads all catchers with a .304 batting average &#8211; 74 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1300,2197,13,14],"tags":[2381,241,638,71],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4165"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4182,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165\/revisions\/4182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}