Outside The Confines: All-Star announcements

Photo by Duane Burleson/Getty ImagesGood morning.

Here’s the roster without a lot of the commentary attached if you just want the names.

And of course, with every roster there come “snubs.” Jordan Schusterman has his roster of All-Star “snubs.”

Bradford Doolittle is nicer. He has a list of All-Star “oversights” and some other thoughts on the rosters.

David Schoenfield has some of the all-time most obscure All-Stars. Several former Cubs are on his lists.

Ken Rosenthal writes that the firings of Rizzo and Martinez make sense but the timing doesn’t (The Athletic sub. req.), coming just a week before the draft in which Washington has the first pick.

Sad news as former White Sox closer Bobby Jenks…