John Blue Moon.

And to make this article more palatable to those who call themselves 'Sandy Alomar', Sr posted some decent #s in the early 1970s when he made the All Star team, and followed that up with a 5.2 WAR season in 1971 in which he didn't, further crumbling the Cookie.

I sm surprised that Scott Cooper, 3B, Red Sox was too productive to make this list.

Mel Stottlemyre's PWARP surprised me. He has a WARP of 6.7, whereas bWAR is 37.5 and fWAR is 33.0. I see that his FRA is much higher than both his ERA and FIP in every year of his career. Can you shed some light on this? Thanks.

How many of these guys were their team's sole representative in at least one year when they were chosen? I believe McBride was the Angels' only representative to the second 1961 ASG, as teammate Ryne Duren had been the first one (where McBride was not on the team). He's the only one I can find, but my search has not been exhaustive. The requirement for each team to be represented has certainly led to some odd ducks on the team, but in general, the really doubtful ones didn't put in repeat appearances.

Subtract 1.5 WARP from Damaso Garcia for bringing Alfredo Griffin to the ASG as his guest in 1984. Griffin later subbed for an injured Alan Trammell on the AL roster, according to manager Joe Altobelli, "mostly because he was here."

This is only tangentially related, but why does WARP so massively penalize relievers? I understand fewer innings obviously means lower WARP, but in the case of Bruce Sutter, how does 107 innings of 2.62 FRA/1.61 FIP in 1977 only equal 2.8 WARP? He has 6.5 bWAR for that season. In 1979 he has 101 innings of 3.18 FRA/1.85 FIP and has only 1.8 WARP. That seems absurd to me (and indeed, again, his bWAR that season was 4.9). It's things like this--hell, the disparity for pretty much all relievers between WARP and either WAR--that makes me really question WARP, especially when it comes to relievers. It doesn't pass the smell test, and completely disagrees with the other advanced metrics (Mariano Rivera has been worth a full 20 wins more according to bWAR than according to WARP! That's a bit absurd).

Randy Jones must have the biggest spread in value between BP, BR, and fangraphs:

Career WAR (or WARP):
BP: -4.1
BR: 16.8
FG: 22.2

I would not have expected a reliever, even in the 1950s, could accumulate that much negative batting value. Clem was talented, I guess. Or not, as the case may be.

The AL pitching was so good in 1972 that 295.3 IP of 2.64 FIP ERA was worth only 0.7 WARP? Guh.