There are rarely a shortage of pinstripes in the All-Star Game. There were four Yankees last year and five the season before that. They have had fewer than three representatives just once since 1994.
That won’t change this year, and that’s no surprise. It’s the players who may be in Cleveland representing the AL East leaders who were not expected to be there, from Luke Voit to Gio Urshela to DJ LeMahieu.
Voit was uncertain to even be the everyday first baseman entering spring training. Urshela broke into the everyday lineup because of injuries. LeMahieu was coming off a season in which he posted a .