Player makes the All Star team in the wrong league?

Mariner and Giants Fan · 03-11-2019, 03:39 PM

So Yonder Alonso starts the 2018 season playing for the Cleveland Indians and on June 24th he gets traded to the Washington Nationals for Adam Eaton. Then on July 15th he makes the American League All Star Team

Have any of you ever seen this happen before? It is a "bug" right.

BirdWatcher · 03-11-2019, 04:07 PM

Yes, I just saw this recently in my fictional save (OOTP19).
(Though, honestly I couldn't recall how this would be handled in real life MLB if a player was voted onto an All-Star team but was traded away shortly before the game was actually played, and to a team in the other league.)

BirdWatcher · 03-11-2019, 04:10 PM

I found this on MLB.com:
"What if a selected player gets traded to a team in the opposite league before the All-Star Game?
This happened to Jeff Samardzija in 2014, when the Cubs dealt him to the A's. Samardzija was deemed ineligible to participate in the game, but was still recognized as an All-Star for the NL (he wore a generic NL jersey and All-Star Game cap for the pregame player introductions). With the game no longer counting for home-field advantage, it's not yet clear if MLB would take as stringent a stance should a similar scenario play out this year with somebody like Manny Machado if he were to be traded."

https://www.mlb.com/news/all-star-ga...faq-c239654292

This is from 2017- I have no idea if this has changed since IRL.

03-11-2019, 03:39 PM	#1
Mariner and Giants Fan All Star Starter Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Issaquah, WA. Posts: 1,118	Player makes the All Star team in the wrong league? So Yonder Alonso starts the 2018 season playing for the Cleveland Indians and on June 24th he gets traded to the Washington Nationals for Adam Eaton. Then on July 15th he makes the American League All Star Team Have any of you ever seen this happen before? It is a "bug" right. __________________ Hebrews 11:1 "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen"

03-11-2019, 04:07 PM	#2
BirdWatcher Hall Of Famer Join Date: Mar 2018 Location: Denver, Colorado Posts: 4,262	Yes, I just saw this recently in my fictional save (OOTP19). (Though, honestly I couldn't recall how this would be handled in real life MLB if a player was voted onto an All-Star team but was traded away shortly before the game was actually played, and to a team in the other league.)

03-11-2019, 04:10 PM	#3
BirdWatcher Hall Of Famer Join Date: Mar 2018 Location: Denver, Colorado Posts: 4,262	I found this on MLB.com: "What if a selected player gets traded to a team in the opposite league before the All-Star Game? This happened to Jeff Samardzija in 2014, when the Cubs dealt him to the A's. Samardzija was deemed ineligible to participate in the game, but was still recognized as an All-Star for the NL (he wore a generic NL jersey and All-Star Game cap for the pregame player introductions). With the game no longer counting for home-field advantage, it's not yet clear if MLB would take as stringent a stance should a similar scenario play out this year with somebody like Manny Machado if he were to be traded." https://www.mlb.com/news/all-star-ga...faq-c239654292 This is from 2017- I have no idea if this has changed since IRL.