but there’s essentially no way it would happen, right? Not even as a statistics leader amongst pretty much all bullpen pitchers, because I’d expect any reliever spots automatically go to closers, right?

Now that I think about it, since the All-Star game pitching seems to work on the one-and-done format, I suppose it actually makes sense to take only closers for the bullpen.

i’d like to honor him as an allstar, but not actually have him pitch.