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there were 77 players named All-Stars this year.

That’s a lot of gift bags!

And yet, as is always the case, there are plenty of players having seasons worthy of that little “AS” next to the 2024 line on their career Baseball-Reference page who, either because they were snubbed at the break or have caught fire after it, won’t have it.

So let’s give some of them a nod (not a gift bag … sorry, guys) here with the All-Non-All-Stars Team!

(And yes, some people will be snubbed from this team, too. Such is life and baseball.)

All stats are through Tuesday’s games.

Catcher: Cal Raleigh, Mariners

This will be the third straight season that “Big Dumper” finishes the year with All-Star-worthy stats and no selection to show for it. All this talk about Shohei Ohtani and 50-50 is fun. But did you know that, according to Baseball-Reference data, Raleigh is the first catcher since Mike Piazza in 2001 – and just the 15th overall – to have 30 homers and 30 caught stealings in the same season?

Honorable mention: Yainer Diaz has a 117 OPS+ in his first season as the Astros’ regular behind the dish.

Walker, who has also never been an All-Star, was pretty widely mentioned as a snub at the time of the roster announcements. He wound up missing all of August with a left oblique strain. But he’s nevertheless had another very productive season for the defending NL champs, slashing .257/.344/.487 with 26 homers and 23 doubles, and he’s likely to be a Gold Glover for the third straight year.