MLB: The 25 best MLB players never to make an All-Star game

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Best players to never make an MLB All-Star roster: 6. Hal Trosky

Stats:

1,561 hits
228 home runs
.302 batting average

Sometimes, baseball fanatics can skip right over the days of black and white televisions and focus on the here and now. That though, wouldn’t seem apropos when it comes to the career of Hal Trosky.

During the 1930s, Trosky was a terrific player. How he didn’t make an All-Star squad is almost impossible to comprehend. Unlike several All-Star snubs who had a few good seasons before turning in several duds, Trosky was consistently great. Excluding his first year, Trosky never had a season in which he didn’t register double-digit home runs. His slugging percentage was consistently near the top of the leader boards and in 1936, he led the league in RBIs with 162. He would also register 42 homers that season. He did all this while batting .343.

In a day and age where batting somewhere in the .280 range is considered elite territory, Hoiler never had a single season under .271. In fact, that happened only once. On four separate occasions, the long-time Cleveland Indian batted over .330.

Just how exactly did Hoiler miss out on All-Star appearances every year while being amongst the league leaders in both batting average and home runs? That’s a question we’ll never get an answer to.

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