Outside The Confines: The stars at night are big and bright . . .
The All-Star Game and Home Run Derby took place this week. As if that wasn’t enough news, so did the MLB Draft. Also, announcer rankings.
What are we going to do today with no baseball?
Anthony Castrovince offers his thoughts and has a recap of the American League’s 5-3 win over the National League in the All-Star Game.
Do-Hyoung Park has the nine best moments from last night’s Midsummer Classic.
Tyler Kepner traces NL starter Paul Skenes rise to the top and argues that the rookie Skenes was more than ready for his closeup. (The Athletic sub. req.)
Jeff Passan gets Skenes’ fellow All-Stars thoughts on him and says that Skenes’ rise has been good for baseball.
The one thing that did not get rave reviews at the All-Star Game were the uniforms. Gabe Lacques wonders if the online hate the uniforms got even matters when they still seemed to be flying off the shelves.
Maybe, because commissioner Rob Manfred “strongly hinted” that there could be a change in the uniforms for the next All-Star Game. (The Athletic sub. req.) Most interpret that as a return to players wearing team uniforms, but I don’t know.
Ian Casselberry collects the players comments ridiculing the uniforms.
