Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Hidden All-Stars: National League

Cardinals: Matt Holliday
It's easier to be overlooked when your teammate is the game's best player (Albert Pujols), but don't hold that against Holliday. He's simply the National League's best outfielder, leading peers with a 3.1 WAR. That's even better than Pujols himself, who leads all candidates in votes. Holliday has actually out-Pujolsed Pujols, lifting the Cardinals on his broad shoulders this season as Pujols experienced a relative power outage. And it's not like Holliday is some upstart: He led left fielders in WAR last year, too. Shouldn't the league's best outfielder start in the All-Star Game?

- Matt Phillip, Fungoes

ESPN

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