If you were to ask which players are most likely to end up at the All-Star Game this year, your first two guesses would be 1B Paul Goldschmidt and CF AJ Pollock. Both have been nominated to that honor, with Goldschmidt going the last four years and Pollock in 2015. Last year 3B Jake Lamb narrowly missed out, losing the final vote to Giants 1B Brandon Belt.
In the first half of 2016, Lamb put up a .291/.373/.612 slashline (151 wRC+), sustained by a .337 BABIP. Lamb was eventually going to come down to Earth at some point, although the fall was pretty severe with a .