Pittsburgh Pirates’ Adam Frazier will start at second basebase for the National League in Denver in two weeks.
Frazier won a final vote, beating out Atlanta’s Ozzie Albies and Los Angeles’ Gavin Lux.
He joins Bill Mazeroski as the only Pirates to ever start and All-Star Game at second. Maz started in six Mid-Summer Classics between 1958-1967,
Frazier got the news in the middle of a pitching change, he waved his glove in the air and tipped his cap to the crowd at PNC Park, who gave me a loud ovation.
Batting .328, Frazier is second in the National League behind Cincinnati’s Nick Castellanos and is second in hits with 101, only one behind Castellanos.
The last Pirates player to start an All-Star Game was Josh Bell, who batted DH in 2019. There was no Mid-Summer Classic last year due to the pandemic.
Frazier is the first Pirates player to be voted in to the All-Star Game since Andrew McCutchen in 2014.
Frazier told the MLB Network earlier this week about what it would mean to be voted in as a starter.
“As a kid you grow up, you want to be an All-Star, want to make it to the Major Leagues in general, but to be an All-Star too, that’d be . . . something special,” said Frazier.
Talking to the PM Team prior to Thursday’s Re-Opening Day (full capacity once again permitted at PNC Park), Frazier said being voted to an All-Star team is a