(It's the day after player selection for the 2018 All-Star Game. Have you complained about who wasn't selected today? I'm beyond doing things like that -- although don't you dare disparage the All-Star Game in front of me! I simply want to see Max Muncy win the NL Final Vote ballot because that should guarantee him a spot in Topps Update this fall. If he doesn't win, who knows? Got to cram in as many undeserving rookies into Update as possible!. Time for Cardboard Appreciation. This is the 271st in a series): Like just about every Dodger fan, I am obsessed with what the Dodgers could have done if they had held on to Pedro Martinez. A rotation of Martinez, his brother Ramon, Hideo Nomo, Chan Ho Park and Ismael Valdez/Pedro Astacio/Darren Dreifort may have been enough to help the Dodgers actually do something in the playoffs during the 1990s. At the very least it would have prevented them from starting pitchers like Dave Mlicki and Brian Bohanon. And they proba...
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