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All-Star Free Agents Remaining

By Ben Nicholson-Smith | January 31, 2010 at 10:55am CDT

Matt Holliday and Jason Bay have signed, but the free agent market is still littered with former All-Stars. Most of these players won't make another All-Star team, but lots of them can still be useful contributors. Take John Smoltz, for example. He lost his first All-Star Game to Nolan Ryan two decades ago, in 1989. Like many players below, Smoltz is past his prime but could help teams win. 

They're not the best players around, or even the best free agents, but here's the complete list of free agents who have been selected to at least one All-Star Game. These 37 players have been chosen for the Midsummer Classic 92 times in total:

  • One – Rich Aurilia, Aaron Boone, Paul Byrd, Tony Clark, Joe Crede, Shawn Estes, Cliff Floyd, Geoff Jenkins, Felipe Lopez, Mike MacDougal, Eric Milton, Chan Ho Park, Odalis Perez, Mark Prior  
  • Two – Hank Blalock, Bartolo Colon, Johnny Damon, Carlos Delgado, Jermaine Dye, Darin Erstad, Brian Giles, Mike Hampton, Livan Hernandez, Orlando Hudson, Jason Isringhausen, Mark Mulder, Dmitri Young
  • Three - Garret Anderson, Eric Gagne, Tom Gordon, Jason Schmidt
  • Four - Troy Percival
  • Five - Mike Sweeney
  • Six - Nomar Garciaparra
  • Eight - Pedro Martinez, John Smoltz
  • Nine - Gary Sheffield
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  1. icedrake523

    15 years ago

    Didn’t Aaron Boone retire?

    Reply
    • randall ramrattan

      15 years ago

      Yea lol he is not

      Reply
    • randall ramrattan

      15 years ago

      Yea lol he is not

      Reply
  2. Pseudonymus Bosch

    15 years ago

    Gary Sheffield’s been to more All-Star games than Pedro Martinez? That’s a crime.

    Reply
    • Guest 997

      15 years ago

      Not really, looking at Pedro’s career seasons it makes sense.

      Reply
  3. rhendricks

    15 years ago

    Anyone know if Nomar Garciaparra has been talking to teams or what he’s asking?

    Reply
  4. Aaron

    15 years ago

    Old age, steroids, over-pricing, injuries, statistical drop-off = irrelevance. There is a reason each one of these players is unsigned.

    Reply
  5. rhendricks

    15 years ago

    Sorry, double post.

    Reply
  6. cbcbcb

    15 years ago

    Thats a joke that Mike Sweeney made it 5 times simply because his team sucked.

    Reply
    • TVReviewsion

      15 years ago

      Mike Sweeney was beast in his prime.

      Reply
    • Koby2

      15 years ago

      For three of his appearances, he truly did deserve them, but his last two, there were players on those teams having much better years than him, it was simply the voters being lazy and going for pure name recognition.

      Reply
  7. Nicolas_C

    15 years ago

    Troy Percival retired

    Reply
  8. Guest 991

    15 years ago

    Sheffield could be a good pick-up on a minor league deal. Don’t know if he would accept any minor league deal, but he would provide good pop from the bench.

    Also, if Pedro lowers his asking price from $5MM to about $2MM, the Yankees could use a veteran #5 starter/pitching depth.

    If Hughes struggles as a starter you could stick Pedro in there and let Hughes, Joba and Mo dominate the 7th, 8th and 9th. Basically it would be a 6 inning game.

    Reply
    • humbb

      15 years ago

      Pedro might realistically sign for $2M …

      … on August 31.

      Reply
  9. BoSoxSam

    15 years ago

    Tony Clark? Really??? I thought he was ready to retire YEARS ago!

    Reply
  10. Alldaybaseball

    15 years ago

    Wouldn’t mind Dimitri Young on a minor league deal. He just needs to stop eating so much.

    Reply
    • Guest 992

      15 years ago

      Agreed. He’s at 350 lbs. now but he can’t help it. He has diabetes. Although I would love to see him make a comeback. He’s one of the better characters and club house guys this game has ever seen.

      Reply
      • Alldaybaseball

        15 years ago

        Yeah, he does I think the Nats took him off the team since he was overweight.

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        • Guest 993

          15 years ago

          Well they purchased his contract out of spring training last year but it was at that time where he realized he couldn’t play so instead of releasing him, they just kept him on the DL the whole season hoping that there would be a chance he could play. Maybe he should go to that conditioning program that Vlad went to this off-season.

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          • Alldaybaseball

            15 years ago

            Agreed, good hitter, but doesn’t seem to fir the positions he plays.

            Reply
  11. mannyd

    15 years ago

    Would anyone consider signing Mark Prior?

    Reply
  12. YanksFanSince78

    15 years ago

    I would love to see the Yanks pick up Garciappara to round off the bench. Pena is a great defensive replacement in the IF but the Yanks are really lacking offense on the bench aside from Winn who I hope is being brought in as a 4th OF rather than a starter ahead of Gardner. Would love to see Nomar starting at 3B or SS on days when Jeter or Arod need a rest.

    Reply
  13. BentoBox

    15 years ago

    Nomar as a yankee ? I’d love to see that.

    Reply
  14. BoSoxSam

    15 years ago

    I’ve always found it interesting that making the All-Star team only requires that you have a good first half. The second half, where playing well really matters as the playoffs get closer, doesn’t matter in terms of the All-Star game. 😛 So all you need to do to get on the All-Star team is have a decent first-half…hehe. While the Pro Bowl is a useless game, and I hate it in general, the one good thing is that its based on a whole season of effort rather than just half. 😛

    Reply
    • humbb

      15 years ago

      What you say is true, although to be fan-voted on to the All-Star *starting* team, all you need is to have a good first-half …. of your career. How many starters in recent history have been voted on purely on the basis of their historical stats and/or popularity? Some have even been on the DL for a good part of the first-half.

      There really should be a player/manager/coach voting component for the starters, although I’m sure Gillette (or whoever is sponsoring the fan vote these days) would certainly object.

      Reply
      • lefty177

        15 years ago

        example-Josh Hamilton!

        Reply
      • lefty177

        15 years ago

        example-Josh Hamilton!

        Reply
  15. bigpat

    15 years ago

    I thought the vast majority of these guys were retired/fossilized/dead.

    Reply
  16. bigpat

    15 years ago

    I thought the vast majority of these guys were retired/fossilized/dead.

    Reply
  17. CuddyFox

    15 years ago

    I can see Cardinals in talk with Garciaperra. He might be a cheaper route then taking Lopez.

    Reply
    • Ferrariman

      15 years ago

      im doubtful they want to add fuel to the fire on the whole steroid thing right now.

      Reply
      • Guest 1006

        15 years ago

        //

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  18. Guest 998

    15 years ago

    Sheff has something left in the bat, someone should scoop him up to DH. The Mariners might fit the bill.

    Reply
  19. RiverKKiller999

    15 years ago

    Did anyone notice that they dont know how to count they left out 7 lol

    Reply
  20. Nicolas_C

    15 years ago

    Interesting to see if someone can lure Bartolo in a minor league deal. He actually was decently effective last year before got hurt, and could provide some pitching depth.

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