The best part about the Major League Baseball All-Star game every year is that a random player will eventually make it onto the roster. Thanks to the rule that every team has to have an All-Star. Actually, the absolute best part about the All-Star game is that years later when a player retires, people will tout for that player's Hall of Fame candidacy by quoting how many All-Star games that player had. But I digress.
In 1999, Ron Coomer of the Minnesota Twins made the All-Star game. Nothing personal against Ron Coomer or anything but he had to be one of the least deserving players to make an All-Star game. His stats for the first half of that season were as follows. .282/.312/.458 with an OPS+ of 110. However, his sOPS+, which makes this relative to the league's OPS for that split was 95. If you're unaware, an OPS+ of 100 is supposed to be league average. Coomer was slightly below average in terms of OPS+ which takes into account the player's home ballpark, as well. This OPS+ would be fine if Coomer was performing at a premium defensive position such as shortstop, second base, centerfield, or catcher. Coomer was playing third base and first base and was doing quite alright at it, for that season Coomer was able to put up 1.0 dWAR (WAR is Wins above replacement) according to baseballreference.com.
This blog's intention is not to poke fun at Ron Coomer. He played at the Major League Baseball level for 9 seasons, something I wish I could do. This blog will try to beat stupididty, inconsistencies in logic, flaws in logic, and downright hypocrisies where it can. It will also discuss sports, movies, books, and basically anything the authors find particularly interesting.
Why is the blog titled Ron Coomer is an All-Star? Why thank you for asking, clumsy literary device. The answer to this question is the phrase Ron Coomer is an All-Star will forever be associated with the authors thinking that somebody did something quite illogical.
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