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

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 26: Mayor Muriel Bowser and MLB Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred unveil the logo for the 2018 All Star Game that will be held at Nationals Park next year before the start of the Washington Nationals and Milwaukee Brewers game on July 26, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images) /

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Tony Phillips (Photo by Ken Levine/Allsport/Getty Images) /

Best players to never make an MLB All-Star roster: 2. Tony Phillips

Stats:

2,023 hits
160 home runs
.266 batting average

Outside of playing pitcher and catcher, Tony Phillips played every other position on the field and he played it at a high level. He wasn’t known as a big home run guy, only once in fact did he register over 20 home runs. But still, Phillips was all over the stat sheets on a regular basis.

In 1992, as a member of the Detroit Tigers, Phillips led the league in runs with 114. One year later, he led it in base on balls with 132 and repeated the feat two years later, this time, with 125. In back-to-back seasons in the early 1990s, there was almost no one better in terms of on base percentage. He checked in at eighth in the AL with an on base percentage of .387. He was out of this world one year later as he finished the year ranked second in that department with a percentage of .443.

Phillips generally ranked in the top 20 of the MVP vote, finishing as high as 16th in 1993 but he didn’t come close to making an All-Star team despite playing for nearly two decades.

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