It doesn’t seem possible, but we’re closer to the end of baseball’s regular season than we are the beginning. With the All-Star Game behind us, the second half of the regular season has officially gotten underway.
For some players, like Detroit’s Ian Kinsler and San Francisco’s Madison Bumgarner, they’ve been able to pick up where they left off before the pause in regular-season action. For others, well, they’re making their first—or in some cases, a repeat—appearance on our All-Dud team.
Granted, this past week was a short one, but those games count—and our All-Dud squad needs to be filled. Taking traditional and advanced statistics (mainly FanGraphs’ weighted runs created plus metric) into consideration, here’s a look at the players unlucky enough to make this week’s cut.