By: Nathan Bloechl — sports@kilj.com
KILJ — Kansas City’s Salvador Perez and St. Louis’s Nolan Arenado headline the list of names of regional players starting in this year’s Major League Baseball All-Star Game.
Perez is the American League’s starting catcher, while Arenado will man the hot corner for the National League.
Other starters include:
AMERICAN LEAGUE
C: Salvador Perez, Kansas City
1B: Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Toronto
2B: Marcus Semien, Toronto
SS: Xander Bogaerts, Boston
3B: Rafael Devers, Boston
OF: Mike Trout, Los Angeles Angels
OF: Aaron Judge, New York Yankees
OF: Teoscar Hernandez, Toronto
DH: Shohei Ohtani, Los Angeles Angels
NATIONAL LEAGUE
C: Buster Posey, San Francisco
1B: Freddie Freeman, Atlanta
2B: Adam Frazier, Pittsburgh
SS: Fernando Tatis Jr., San Diego
3B: Nolan Arenado, St. Louis
OF: Ronald Acuna Jr., Atlanta
OF: Nick Castellanos, Cincinnati
OF: Jesse Winker, Cincinnati