Some fans are really dumb

MLB All-Star voting has started. Well, it started a while ago, but they made the first announcement of who's winning. There are some surprises. Not the good kind, either. I'm going to go through some of my favorites.
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4. Mark Teixeira, 1st in AL 1B

This one is kind of excusable, what with the whole "being on the Yankees" and "usually being really good" thing. But right now, he's not good. He has a 0.2 WAR (wins over replacement), which sucks. Also a .210 BA and a .370 slugging percentage, which also suck. 7 HR and 30 RBI is kind of good, but not really.

You know who's way more awesome? KEVIN YOUKILIS. This is not just me being a Red Sox fan, he's legitimately better this year. He has a .311/.457/.602 slash line, which is good. 10 HR and 29 RBI is roughly the same as Teixeira. And Youkilis has a 2.5 WAR, which is pretty good, and way better than Tex.

So yeah, Yankee fans are lame (sorry, Yankee fans).

3. Placido Polanco, 1st in NL 3B

Polanco isn't bad, as much as it hurts me to say that. But there's a player outperforming him at his position, and Polanco is not a superstar player, so there's no legitimate excuse for him leading the third base voting (the Phillies being good is a terrible reason to vote a player onto an All-Star team).

Have you ever heard of Casey McGehee? He's the third baseman for the (admittedly not very good) Brewers. I'm going to pick some good stats and some popular stats by which to compare them.

Popular...
BA: Polanco .311, McGehee .306
HR: Polanco 5, McGehee 9
RBI: Polanco 21, McGehee 40
Good...
wOBA: Polanco .352, McGehee .390
wRC+: Polanco 115, McGehee 144
WAR: Polanco 1.4, McGehee 1.3

So yeah, McGehee's better, for the most part, except for BA and WAR (where I'd say there's a negligible difference).

2. Jimmy Rollins, 1st in NL SS

Jimmy Rollins is an ass, but his slash line right now is .341/.462/.634 so I guess I should give him a break.

What's that? He's played 12 of 45 games this year (that's 33 games missed, for the lazy)? Ike Davis has played more, and he's only been in the major leagues for a month. This is stupid. Hanley Ramirez is in second place, and honestly, even if Rollins had played a full season, it's likely Ramirez would deserve the starting spot more (unless you're voting only based on hustle, in which case you probably already voted for David Eckstein even though he's terrible).

Hanley Ramirez is really good at baseball.

1. Pat Burrell, 4th in AL DH

I don't know who is voting for Pat Burrell. I have one friend who is a Rays fan, and he hates Pat Burrell. He only refers to him as a bum. Thus, I'm assuming it wasn't Rays fans voting for him. Based on his statistics, it also can't be "people who have been watching baseball this year." He has a .202/.292/.333 slash line and a .284 wOBA, which is horrible. Scott Podsednik's BA is higher than Burrell's OBP, and Scott Podsednik isn't good. Burrell is so worthless that the Rays cut him, and he hasn't been signed by another team. Yeah, he had more votes than David Ortiz, and he's not even on a baseball team. I almost hope he wins, just to see what happens. I hope he'd wear a blank jersey, like Sammy Sosa in Hardball.

This is all great evidence for why fans shouldn't be voting for the All-Star teams, if they're going to be deciding home-field in the World Series. Because we vote for stupid players.