Kyle Freeland is currently a top-5 player in the National League. That’s according to Baseball Reference WAR, which has Freeland behind Aaron Nola and ahead of Lorenzo Cain with 4.0 bWAR. That would seem to make him an obvious All-Star no matter where he played his home games, but especially so given the horror with which national media members discuss Coors Field.
Freeland should be an All-Star but he isn’t. Instead of going down the road of listing all the ways he is a snub, let’s try to figure out what might have gone against him.