A Yankees team filled with established stars will be represented at the All-Star Game instead by stars both rising and resilient.<\/p>\n
A club that features many-time All-Stars such as Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton, Gerrit Cole, Max Fried and Paul Goldschmidt will instead send Cam Schlittler, Ben Rice and Cody Bellinger to Citizens Bank Park on July 14, MLB announced Saturday. <\/p>\n
Judge, too, was voted in but will not play due to injury.<\/p>\n
Schlittler and Rice, the upstart, Boston-area pair, were shoo-ins for the honor and can aim even higher, candidates for the league\u2019s Cy Young and MVP, respectively. <\/p>\n
Both will be attending their first Midsummer Classic.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s special,\u201d Schlittler, who was voted in by the player ballot, said after an 11-4 loss to the Twins in The Bronx. \u201c[Both of us] being from Massachusetts, that\u2019s a great feeling. Being able to share that connection with him. [Rice has] had a great season so far and he deserves it.\u201d<\/p>\n
As does Schlittler, who could start for the AL, owns the league\u2019s best ERA (2.08), the second-most strikeouts (123 in 104 innings) and second-best WHIP (0.96). <\/p>\n
Cam Schlittler is headed to the All-Star Game. Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n
A seventh-round pick out of Northeastern who learned to throw harder and harder, until his stuff was blowing away major league hitters, has arrived.<\/p>\n
Schlittler said he would pitch in the game \u201cif it lines up,\u201d but added that the \u201cteam comes first.\u201d <\/p>\n
The Yankees will want to monitor the innings of Schlittler, whom they plan on riding into October.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll see,\u201d manager Aaron Boone said.<\/p>\n
Rice also came out of the Boston area (Cohasset and Dartmouth) and also came out of nowhere, a 12th-round pick whose college career was ruined by COVID but who hit his way through the Yankees\u2019 system.<\/p>\n
After a solid but not sterling first full season in 2025, he has emerged as one of the best hitters in the game (.926 OPS with 24 home runs) and fit nicely next to Judge (when healthy) in the lineup.<\/p>\n
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\u201cYou don\u2019t necessarily come into the season saying, \u2018I really want to be on the All-Star team,\u2019 but you can only hope that if you do your best every day and stick to your process and results follow, then maybe you get the chance,\u201d said Rice, who was picked by the commissioner\u2019s office.<\/p>\n
Bellinger will make his third trip to the All-Star Game but first since 2019. <\/p>\n
The 30-year-old has reinvented himself through a non-tender from the Dodgers and a salary dump of a trade from the Cubs and will be an All-Star in his second season as a Yankee and his first of a five-year contract.<\/p>\n
Ben Rice has emerged as a big-time Yankees slugger. Robert Sabo for NY Post<\/p>\n
He last was an All-Star during his year-23 season, when he was the NL MVP for the Dodgers.<\/p>\n
Cody Bellinger is among the Yankees heading to the ASG. Corey Sipkin for the NY POST<\/p>\n
\u201cIt feels good,\u201d said Bellinger, who is no longer the 40-homer threat he once was but does everything well, from hitting to fielding to throwing to running. \u201cIt\u2019s been a while. It\u2019s been a long time coming. I\u2019m going to enjoy it \u2014 first one with the family. I\u2019m very excited to be there.\u201d<\/p>\n
For a Yankees club that has lost eight of nine, the announcements allowed for a moment to smile and look back upon seasons that will be honored.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re in the throes of the season. We\u2019re grinding in the middle of the summer here,\u201d Boone said. \u201cIt\u2019s like, pause and honor the people that are going and recognize what a big deal it is.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Yankees team filled with established stars will be represented at the All-Star Game instead by stars both…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10094,48671,32358,13917,20,104362,9,11,10,321,319],"class_list":["post-287117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-aaron-judge","tag-ben-rice","tag-cam-schlittler","tag-cody-bellinger","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-all-star-game","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}