The Giants will have Buster Posey starting and representing the entire lineup, and Madison Bumgarner and Johnny Cueto will give them two All-Star pitchers.
The Giants will send three players to the 2016 All-Star Game, with Buster Posey elected to the starting lineup and Madison Bumgarner and Johnny Cueto picked to join the National League staff. A concentrated social media push for last-second votes helped Posey pull ahead, and his election takes the sting out of two of the National League’s most notable snubs, Brandon Crawford and Brandon Belt.
The least surprising choices were with the starting pitchers, as Bumgarner and Cueto have combined for a 21-5 record and 2.