The All-Star Game scheduled for Dodger Stadium in 2020 was postponed. But the All-MLB teams were announced on Wednesday, giving baseball’s best players another way to pad their résumés.
In his first season with the Dodgers, right fielder Mookie Betts was named to the All-MLB first team. Shortstop Corey Seager and starting pitcher Clayton Kershaw were named to the All-MLB second team. Justin Turner was a finalist at third base.
The All-MLB awards were started in 2019. Selections were made by a combination of fan voting (50 percent) and a panel of experts (50 percent).
Betts added the honor to his list of 2020 achievements, which already included a runner-up finish in the National League MVP voting, a Gold Glove award (his fifth in a row) and a Silver Slugger award (his fourth).Betts finished the 60-game regular season with a .292 average, .927 OPS and 16 home runs.
The rest of the first team included the Angels’ Mike Trout and the Washington Nationals’ Juan Soto in the outfield, Atlanta Braves first baseman Freddie Freeman, New York Yankees second baseman D.J. LeMahieu, San Diego Padres teammates Fernando Tatis Jr. and Manny Machado at shortstop and third base, Kansas City Royals catcher Salvador Perez and Atlanta designated hitter Marcell Ozuna.
The first-team starting pitchers were the Cleveland Indians’ Shane Bieber (Laguna Hills High), the Cincinnati Reds’ Trevor Bauer (Hart High, UCLA), the Chicago Cubs’ Yu Darvish, the New York Mets’ Jacob deGrom and Atlanta’s Max Fried (Harvard-Westlake High).
The first-team relief pitchers were Oakland’s Liam Hendriks and Tampa Bay’s Nick Anderson.
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