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Oakland Athletics’ Billy Burns Forgotten From All-Star Ballot

OK MLB, riddle me this? How do you leave Billy Burns off the All-Star ballot?

After hyping it up for some time now, Major League Baseball opened balloting on Sunday, April 24 for the 87th All-Star Game, which takes place in San Diego in July. As yours truly was filling out a ballot, I found out that the Oakland Athletics lead-off hitter, who went into today’s game against the Blue Jays batting a near .300 in 14 of the A’s 18 games, was snubbed from even being named.

Of course the .190 hitting Khris Davis and .