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Jul 13, 2025, 11:15 AM ET
Multiple Phillies players ripped Major League Baseball's determination to adhd Jacob Misiorowski to the National League All-Star roster, questioning the league's enactment process and citing the Brewers rookie's deficiency of acquisition successful the majors.
MLB announced Friday that the hard-throwing Misiorowski, who has made conscionable 5 starts for Milwaukee, would regenerate Cubs pitcher Matthew Boyd connected the NL roster.
The Phillies, already miffed astatine what they perceived to beryllium a fig of All-Star snubs connected their roster, voiced their resentment aboriginal Friday night.
"What a joke," shortstop Trea Turner told The Athletic. "That's f---ing terrible. I mean that's terrible, dude."
"It's turning into the Savannah Bananas," outfielder Nick Castellanos added.
The Phillies pointed to left-handers Ranger Suarez and Cristopher Sanchez arsenic examples of much deserving All-Star replacements that Misiorowski.
"That's conscionable however MLB does it now," catcher J.T. Realmuto told The Athletic. "Nothing against the Misiorowski kid. But those 2 (Suarez and Sanchez) are deserving of being connected the squad successful the archetypal place. There's nary doubt."
Misiorowski is 4-1 with a 2.83 ERA successful his 5 starts, striking retired 33 implicit 25 2/3 innings portion wowing fans with a fastball that averages 99.3 mph. The 6-foot-7 right-hander has unleashed 89 pitches this play that person reached astatine slightest 100 mph.
"Major League Baseball is truly conscionable focusing connected the astir marketable players," Castellanos told The Athletic. "So the information that they tin person idiosyncratic successful the crippled that is going to fundamentally stroke retired 1 inning and propulsion 103, 104, they're going to get much eyeballs connected baseball. They're going to deliberation it's getting much popular."
Turner was asked by The Athletic whether fashionable additions similar Misiorowski perchance cheapen the All-Star enactment process.
"Yeah, 100 percent," helium said. "I mean, it's not the All-Star Game successful the consciousness that the champion players spell there, oregon radical who person had the champion season.
"It's whoever sells the astir tickets oregon has been enactment connected societal media the most. That's fundamentally what it's turned into."
Although not arsenic flashy arsenic Misiorowski, the Phillies' duo of Suarez and Sanchez some boast All-Star-worthy resumes this season.
After missing the archetypal month, Suarez is 7-3 with a 1.94 ERA implicit 83 2/3 innings -- the lowest ERA successful the NL for immoderate pitcher with astatine slightest 80 innings pitched.
Suarez said past week that MLB invited him to the All-Star Game connected the information that helium would beryllium disposable to pitch. The left-hander said helium declined, citing his tendency to rest, and MLB truthful opted against naming him an All-Star.
"Even if you're going to inquire him that, past helium should beryllium labeled an All-Star astatine that point," Kyle Schwarber, the Phillies' lone All-Star, told The Athletic. "Not conscionable if you tin pitch."
Sanchez is 7-2 with a 2.59 ERA -- the league's fourth-lowest among qualified starters -- and has a 4.1 WAR, the third-best among NL pitchers.
"If (Sanchez) is not an All-Star, past nary 1 is," Turner told The Athletic.
Sanchez was slated to transportation the Phillies' crippled Sunday successful San Diego against the Padres, which apt would restrict his availability successful Tuesday's All-Star Game successful Atlanta.
But Turner, Realmuto Schwarber agreed that MLB could person named Sanchez to the roster and past selected different replacement.
"He should beryllium named an All-Star still," Schwarber said.
"That's unacceptable that they can't sanction him an All-Star and (replace him connected the roster)," Turner added. "So the lone excuse that that guy's not successful the All-Star Game is that helium can't transportation that day? That's terrible."
