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Yanks add five to All-Star squad; Braves lead all with six
Posted: Wednesday July 01, 1998 03:38 PM
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Wells, who has a perfect game this season, joins four N.Y. teammates on the American League team (AP) |
NEW YORK (AP) -- A day after the Yankees were shut out in voting for
All-Star starters, five New York players were picked as reserves for next
Tuesday's game.
Pitcher David
Wells, shortstop Derek Jeter,
third baseman Scott Brosius
and outfielders Bernie
Williams and Paul O'Neill
were selected today by AL manager Mike Hargrove and league president Gene
Budig.
Cleveland also has five players on the AL roster, with pitcher Bartolo Colon,
catcher Sandy
Alomar Jr. and shortstop Omar Vizquel
joining two teammates who will start: first baseman Jim Thome and
outfielder Kenny
Lofton.
The Atlanta Braves
have the most All-Stars with six. Tom Glavine and
Greg Maddux
were selected for the pitching staff, Javy Lopez will
be a backup catcher and Andres
Galarraga will be a backup first baseman. Walt Weiss was
elected to start at shortstop and Chipper Jones
was voted the starter at third.
San Diego will have five players on the team, including pitchers Andy Ashby, Kevin Brown and
Trevor
Hoffman. Greg
Vaughn was selected as a backup outfielder and Tony Gwynn was
voted to start.
Sammy Sosa,
tied for second in the majors in homers at 33, was picked as a reserve by
NL manager Jim Leyland and league president Len Coleman.
Infielder Edgar
Renteria is the only representative of the World Series champion Florida Marlins, who
shed nearly all their stars during a payroll purge. Four of those former
Marlins were picked for the team: Moises Alou
(Astros), Brown, Nen (Giants) and Gary
Sheffield (Dodgers).
Rick Reed of
the Mets, a replacement player three years ago, also was chosen for the NL
pitching staff, which includes Philadelphia's Curt
Schilling, Cincinnati's Jeff Shaw and
Montreal's Ugueth Urbina.
Pedro
Martinez and Tom Gordon of the
Red Sox were selected for the AL staff, which also includes former Boston
pitchers Roger
Clemens (now with Toronto) and Aaron Sele (now
with Texas). Other AL pitchers are Rolando Arrojo of Tampa Bay, Troy Percival
of Anaheim, Brad
Radke of Minnesota and John
Wetteland of Texas.
Oakland outfielder Ben Grieve was the only position rookie selected for
the game at Coors Field in Denver. The hometown Rockies, who have
outfielder Larry
Walker in the starting lineup, added a pair of reserves in third
baseman Vinny
Castilla and outfielder Dante
Bichette.
Backup AL infielders include Ray Durham (White
Sox), Damion
Easley (Tigers), Dean Palmer
(Royals) and Mo
Vaughn (Red Sox). Anaheim's Darin Erstad
will be a reserve outfielder.
Pittsburgh's Jason Kendall
will be a backup catcher in the NL, and the reserve infielders include
Milwaukee's Fernando Vina.
Arizona's Devon
White will be a backup outfielder.
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