2005 All-Stars:
* - Indicates Starters

American League:
MGR - Terry Francona (Boston)
C Jason Varitek (Boston)*
C Ivan Rodriguez (Detroit)
1B Mark Teixeira (Texas)*
1B Paul Konerko (Chicago AL)
1B Mike Sweeney (Kansas City)
2B Brian Roberts (Baltimore)*
2B Alfonso Soriano (Texas)
3B Alex Rodriguez (NY Yankees)*
3B Melvin Mora (Baltimore)
SS Miguel Tejada (Baltimore)*
SS Michael Young (Texas)
OF Manny Ramirez (Boston)*
OF Ichiro Suzuki (Seattle)
OF Johnny Damon (Boston)*
OF Garret Anderson (LA Angels)
OF Valdimir Guerrero (LA Angels)*
OF Gary Sheffield (NY Yankees)
DH David Ortiz (Boston)
DH Shea Hillenbrand (Toronto)

SP Kenny Rogers (Texas)
SP Mark Buehrle (Chicago AL)
SP Jon Garland (Chicago AL)
SP Roy Halladay (Toronto)
SP Bartolo Colon (LA Angels)
SP Johan Santana (Minnesota)
RP Justin Duchscherer (Oakland)
CP Mariano Rivera (NY Yankees)
CP Danys Baez (Tampa Bay)
CP Joe Nathan (Minnesota)
CP B.J. Ryan (Baltimore)
CP Bob Wickman (Cleveland)

Final Man Nominees: Carl Crawford (Tampa Bay), Torii Hunter (Minnesota), Derek Jeter (NY Yankees), Hideki Matsui (NY Yankees), Scott Podsednik (Chicago)


National League:
MGR - Tony La Russa (St. Louis)
C Mike Piazza (NY Mets)*
C Paul Lo Duca (Florida)
1B Derek Lee (Chicago NL)*
1B Albert Pujols (St. Louis)
2B Jeff Kent (LA Dodgers)*
2B Luis Castillo (Florida)
3B Scott Rolen (St. Louis)*
3B Aramis Ramirez (Chicago NL)
SS David Eckstein (St. Louis)*
SS Cesar Izturis (LA Dodgers)
SS Felipe Lopez (Cincinnati)
OF Jim Edmonds (St. Louis)*
OF Carlos Beltran (NY Mets)*
OF Bobby Abreu (Philadelphia)*
OF Moises Alou (San Francisco)
OF Jason Bay (Pittsburgh)
OF Miguel Cabrera (Florida)
OF Luis Gonzalez (Arizona)
OF Andruw Jones (Atlanta)
OF Carlos Lee (Milwaukee)

SP Roger Clemens (Houston)
SP Pedro Martinez (NY Mets)
SP Livan Hernandez (Washington)
SP Chris Carpenter (St. Louis)
SP Dontrelle Willis (Florida)
SP Jake Peavy (San Diego)
SP John Smoltz (Atlanta)
CP Chad Cordero (Washington)
CP Jason Isringhausen (St. Louis)
CP Brad Lidge (Houston)
CP Brian Fuentes (Colorado)

Final Man Nominees: Trevor Hoffman (San Diego), Brett Myers (Philadelphia), Roy Oswalt (Houston), Billy Wagner (Philadelphia), Brandon Webb (Arizona)

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Pretty good field of selections this year, as almost everyone selected deserves a spot on the team... except Danys Baez, I don't remember him doing more than nothing this year for the Devil Rays, and would've easily given the Tampa Bay slot to Carl Crawford.

I'm not really surprised 4 Boston players were chosen as starters, since Boston fans have been notorious for ballot stuffing these things. Example? Nomar Garciaparra being voted in as starter every year, even when he's injured or not playing that great (even this year he was leading even though he played 14 games all year).

One Sox player I'm surprised didn't make the team was Matt Clement, but I guess you can't make room for everyone, can you?

For the voting for the final slots, I guess I'd probably go with Crawford (Devil Ray favortism) for the AL, and Roy Oswalt for the NL. No real reason for Oswalt, but I feel he's doing the best on his team.