Between the expanded roster size and numerous players being added as injury replacements this season’s All-Star game will feature a total of 72 players, with 36 for the AL and 36 for the NL.
Technically at any one point there are 750 major leaguers on active rosters, but in terms of “regulars” that number is probably closer to, say, 600.
I figure each team has a five-man rotation and a nine-man lineup, plus a key bench player and five key relievers. And that actually seems like a pretty generous defintion of “regulars.”
Anyway, if you go along with the notion that each team has 20 “regulars” and there are a total of 600 “regulars” in the majors that means 72 out of 600 are All-Stars. That works out to 12 percent of all regulars being named All-Stars, or one out of every 8.3 players.
Something to think about next time everyone gets all worked up over supposed “snubs.”
