Seiya quickly proved everyone wrong.
If anyone watched the All-Star selection show prior to Sunday Night Baseball, and then watched the Cubs-Cardinals game that immediately followed it, they rather quickly realized things didn't add up.
Seiya Suzuki wasn't named a National League All Star. How?
Suzuki entered Sunday night with 75 RBI on the season, thanks in part to 24 home runs.
And then he went deep against the Cardinals and drove in two more runs to keep his stellar season going.
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Suzuki leads all of baseball in RBI, and sure, that's an old-age stat, but it still proves that in this season and his scenarios in particular, Suzuki has delivered.
His omission led to some social media discussion, and it turns out that Hank Greenberg once missed the All-Star Game with 105 RBI at the break, and that was in an era where RBI were highly valued. So maybe this isn't the biggest snub ever.
But Suzuki certainly could've made it. He even could've started, which would've made it an all-Cubs outfield with Pete Crow-Armstrong and Kyle Tucker.
Likely, Suzuki will get in as some form of replacement.
But the fact that he wasn't on the initial roster in some form already is just silly.
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