Here is the August All-Star team

The Major League Baseball common season is six months lengthy, which permits us to interrupt the season into six handy chunks. Each of those chunks are equal to one another, even when it doesn’t appear that means on the time; it all the time feels, within the second, that the primary and final months rely extra.

But as with final 12 months, we have now been placing collectively an All-Star crew for every month of the season. Can you consider we solely have one month left? Here’s an All-Star choose from every league, at every place, for August.

Back in 2019 with the Twins, Garver regarded like Mike Piazza for a complete 12 months. That’s what he has regarded like for the Rangers in August, and, with the AL West getting more and more tight, his crew wants each bit he may give them.

Mountcastle has been top-of-the-line hitters in baseball for the reason that All-Star break: Do you realized he’s hitting .353 since all of us spent a number of days in Seattle? He has raised his OBP by almost 150 factors!

For all of the discuss of the fallout of Altuve’s World Baseball Classic damage, that is as spry as he regarded this late within the 12 months in lots of a moon. It truly appears to be like like he’s extra rested than he has ever been … simply in time for the Astros’ AL West push.

You knew Turner wasn’t going to neglect he was Trea Turner without end. For future reference, in case you are ever struggling after taking a brand new job with a brand new employer, apparently taking out a billboard to thank that employer and its prospects for being affected person with you works wonders.

Hayes has been as good as ever on protection, however during the last month, the facility that the Pirates have been ready to reach since he was a prospect lastly bought right here. With all of the younger expertise within the Pirates system, bear in mind, Hayes remains to be simply 26 himself.

For all of the issues that occurred in August — together with that cavalcade of drama in Anaheim — the simple largest tales of this month have been what Betts and Rodríguez have achieved. They not solely have had transcendent months, they’ve carried their groups to first place … virtually single-handedly.

You could bear in mind, from final 12 months’s postseason, that Harper tends to lift his sport when the stakes are highest and the lights are brightest. He has twice as many homers in August as he did mixed the three months earlier.

Starting Pitcher
Cole Ragans, Royals (3-1, 1.72 ERA, 53 Ok, 36 2/3 IP)

So, it turned out that the Royals-Rangers commerce on the finish of June featured two dominant flamethrowing left-handers. You thought Aroldis Chapman was the one one. But Ragans has raised his sport to a different degree since attending to Kansas City and now appears to be like like somebody that franchise could have round for a very long time.

As if the Braves didn’t have sufficient good issues occurring, they’ve had probably the most dominant nearer in baseball this month, too.