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Mark Kotsay is named to Bruce Bochy’s AL All-Star team coaching staff. Kotsay will likely be the last Oakland A’s coach in an All-Star Game.
— Melissa Lockard (@melissalockard) June 25, 2024
Mark Kotsay never made the All-Star team as a player, though he probably deserved to once or twice. In 2004 he joined the A’s as their center fielder and slashed .314/.370/.459, posted 4.6 WAR, and finished fourteenth in AL MVP voting. Those are solid numbers, but they weren’t enough to get Kotsay to that season’s Midsummer Classic in Houston, where future Hall of Famer Ichiro Suzuki started in center field.