If A Rational Person Choose the All-Star Ballots: AL Version

I don't care who starts because they're all pretty damn good. I will admit the best of the best of the best won't be playing because we can only take 33 guys and every team needs to have a representative, but this list will be much better than the actual list

C:
Victor Martinez (Indians)
Joe Mauer (Twins)

1B:
Carlos Pena (Rays)
Kevin Youkilis (Red Sox)
Mark Texeira (Yankees)

2B:
Aaron Hill (Blue Jays)
Ian Kinsler (Rangers)

3B:
Evan Longoria (Rays)
Scott Rolen (Blue Jays)

SS:
Derek Jeter (Yankees)
Jason Bartlett (Rays)

OF:
Carl Crawford (Rays)
Jermaine Dye (White Sox)
Torii Hunter (Angels)
Adam Jones (Orioles)
Jason Bay (Red Sox)
Shin-Soo Choo (Indians)
Adam Lind (Blue Jays)
Ben Zobrist (Rays)

SP:
Zach Grienks (Royals)
Justin Verlander (Tigers)
Edwin Jackson (Tigers)
Jon Lester (Red Sox)
Roy Halladay (Blue Jays)
Felix Hernandez (Mariners)
Josh Beckett (Red Sox)
Dallas Braden (A's)

RP:
Matt Thorton (White Sox)
Joe Nathan (Twins)
Mariano Rivera (Yankees)
Jonathan Papelbon (Red Sox)
David Aardsma (Mariners)

Last man: Russell Branyan (Mariners)

My apologies to: Justin Morneau, Miguel Cabrera, Johnny Damon, Nick Blackburn, Jarrod Washburn, A.J. Burnett, Jered Weaver, Mark Buerhle

Now I will admit for the most part the real All-Star ballot was correct but some few notables like Ichiro and especially Josh Hamilton I don't like on the real team

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