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Just found out today that Youk is not on the All star ballot. We're going to have to start a write-in campaign Sox fans.

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Yeah, uh, there's probably a good reason he's not on the All-Star ballot.

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Among full-time AL first basemen:

NAME AVG OPS HR RBI

Swisher .283 .906 6 HR 21 RBI
Morneau .275 .904 11HR 25 RBI
Garko .328 .904 6 HR 15 RBI
Youkilis .327 .899 5 HR 22 RBI
Texeira .286 .861 6 HR 23 RBI

Carlos Pena and Dan Johnson have also been great.

I know, I know, RBI and AVG aren't that important, etc etc. But it's what fans vote for. No doubt Youkilis belongs on the ballot (although I'm pretty sure Swisher and Morneau will both put some distance between themselves and Youk, he is going to cool off... but right now he is playing awesome.)

BTW while checking these numbers I noticed that Ryan Garko is available in my fantasy league, sweet!