By now, Yankees and Mets followers are accustomed to seeing Aaron Decide and Pete Alonso on the MLB All-Star Recreation.
That is the fifth 12 months in a row and seventh total that Decide was named an All-Star, whereas Alonso is about to take part within the annual exhibition for a fourth consecutive season and the fifth time total.
However there are contemporary faces representing each golf equipment at Tuesday night time’s All-Star Recreation at Truist Park in Atlanta, too.
The New York groups are sending 4 gamers apiece, with second baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. and beginning pitchers Max Fried and Carlos Rodón becoming a member of Decide for the Yankees; and shortstop Francisco Lindor, nearer Edwin Diaz and starter David Peterson going with Alonso for the Mets.
That doubles final 12 months’s whole, when the Yankees and Mets mixed for 4 All-Stars.
Listed below are the largest All-Star storylines involving the Yankees and Mets.
TO THE MAX
A number of days earlier than the All-Star Recreation, Fried made a name to Detroit Tigers ace Tarik Skubal.
Fried knew he and Skubal had been in rivalry to start out Tuesday night time’s recreation, and he needed to gauge his counterpart’s curiosity in doing it.
“It was just a very candid conversation of, ‘Hey, I know this is something that right now hasn’t been decided,’ but I [felt] like, from my end, if he wanted to start the game, he deserved to do it,” Fried mentioned Sunday.
That helped pave the way in which for Skubal (10-3, 2.23 ERA, 153 strikeouts) to get the nod. American League supervisor Aaron Boone, who has enter on the sport’s beginning pitcher, referred to as Skubal shortly after Fried did to tell him he can be beginning.
Skubal mentioned he initially deferred to Fried (11-3, 2.43 ERA, 113 strikeouts), who spent his first eight seasons in Atlanta.
“To be able to let everyone know that I wasn’t going to be available if I wasn’t going to start, then, yeah, just to be able to do that and try to get ahead of it, [it was good] to give people the time to get their plans together,” Fried mentioned.
Fried had determined already that he would sit out of the All-Star Recreation earlier than he left Saturday’s begin with a blister. He nonetheless plans to attend the sport.
INCREDIBLE AARON
Even amongst All-Stars, Decide stands tall.
The 6-7 slugger’s unbelievable first half made him the All-Star Recreation’s main vote-getter and can once more make his at-bats must-see-TV.
Decide leads the majors in batting common (.355), on-base share (.462), slugging share (.733) and OPS (1.195), whereas his 35 dwelling runs and 81 RBI rank second to Seattle’s Cal Raleigh.
Decide is about to bat third for the American League, organising a first-inning matchup in opposition to flame-throwing Paul Skenes of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Skenes gained that showdown in final 12 months’s recreation, getting Decide to floor right into a first-inning drive out.
Decide, who’s batting straight in entrance of Raleigh, is the Yankees’ lone starter.
“Excited to head to Atlanta,” Decide mentioned over the weekend. “They’ve got a lot of great guys going to the game.”
LONG-AWAITED LINDOR
For the primary time as a Met, Lindor was named an All-Star.
The followers voted Lindor to be the Nationwide League’s beginning shortstop, and he’s set to bat eighth.
It’s the fifth All-Star choice for Lindor, however he had not made the sport since 2019, when he nonetheless performed for Cleveland.
Now in his fifth season with the Mets, the switch-hitting Lindor is batting .260 with 19 dwelling runs, 54 RBI and 15 stolen bases.
Lindor is the Mets’ solely starter.
“I’m looking forward to it,” Lindor mentioned. “There’s a lot of good people in this organization, and to be able to represent them, I do that with a lot of pride and the utmost respect.”
FOR PETE’S SAKE
Whereas Alonso, a reserve first baseman, will probably seem in Tuesday’s recreation, he declined MLB’s invitation to take part within the Residence Run Derby for a sixth time.
Alonso, who gained the derby in 2019 and 2021, had competed in it yearly of his MLB profession apart from 2020, when the occasion was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I’ve never really fully enjoyed the three off days, so I think for me, I just want to be in the best possible position to help this team win in the second half,” Alonso mentioned. “Personally, I feel like I’m in a groove with certain things.”
Alonso, who can choose out of his contract after the season, is hitting .280 with 21 dwelling runs, 77 RBI and a .908 OPS.
SOTO SNUB
Juan Soto ranks fourth within the majors in on-base share (.396), seventh in dwelling runs (23) and eleventh in OPS (.905), however that wasn’t sufficient to get the Mets slugger into the All-Star Recreation.
The shock snub got here within the first 12 months of Soto’s record-setting 15-year, $765 million contract with the Mets.
His offensive numbers are superior to these of NL reserve outfielders Fernando Tatis Jr., Corbin Carroll and Kyle Stowers, the latter of whom is the Miami Marlins’ lone consultant. Each workforce is granted no less than one All-Star.
The Mets had held out hope Soto can be added to the NL roster as a substitute.
“It’s a lot of money on the table if I make it,” Soto, who would have earned a $100,000 bonus, mentioned final week.
“There’s a lot of players out there that have great numbers and deserve to be there,” Soto mentioned. “But it’s a roster that they got filled, and it’s only 25 guys. They can’t all take all the guys.”
REDEMPTION STORIES
That is Rodón’s third All-Star choice, however the left-hander acknowledged that this 12 months’s is especially significant.
Rodón struggled with harm and inconsistency within the first 12 months of his six-year, $162 million cope with the Yankees in 2023, then rebounded with a powerful season (16-9, 3.96 ERA) final 12 months.
However Rodón has been at a unique degree this 12 months, going 10-6 with a 3.08 ERA within the first half. He was named Fried’s substitute on the AL roster.
“I wasn’t good when I first got here,” Rodón mentioned Friday. “I wanted to prove that I wasn’t going to give up and just put my best foot forward and try to win as many games as I can.”
Diaz additionally overcame adversity. That is his third All-Star choice, however it’s his first since he suffered a season-ending knee harm in the course of the 2023 World Baseball Traditional.
The flame-throwing right-hander boasts a 1.66 ERA and has transformed 19 of his 20 save alternatives.
“It feels good,” Diaz mentioned.
Initially Revealed: July 14, 2025 at 2:21 PM EDT
