All-Star Notebook: Young blood bringing excitement to ASG
Field Level Media
DENVER -- Major League Baseball has turned its midsummer classic into a youth movement.
The All-Star Game at Coors Field will have a record 40 first-time players, and many of them are the young superstars that have electrified fans in 2021.
The most heralded is Los Angeles Angels phenom Shohei Ohtani, 27, who will make history as the starting pitcher and as the DH for the American League. It is his first time playing the All-Star Game, but he's not the youngest.
The NL features some of the best young players including San Diego's Fernando Tatis Jr. (22 years old), Ozzie Albies (24) of the Atlanta Braves and Juan Soto (22) of the Washington Nationals. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. (22) and Bo Bichette (23) of Toronto are two of the young stars on the AL roster.