My philosophy on All-Star teams is simple: It's a marketing event for baseball, not a popularity contest and not a way to reward first-half flukes.
A lot of folks have grown up thinking that selection is just about who has the best stats on the day you vote, even if it's someone who has just had the best 50 games of his life, rather than getting the actual stars -- the very word that is in the name of the game -- all on one field at one time. With that in mind, here are five players I think belong in this year's All-Star Game but might be omitted, and five players who could be included but wouldn't make the cut for me.