In being named to the 2025 All-Star Game in Atlanta (July 15, 8 p.m.), De La Cruz joins a long list of Reds to make multiple All-Star Game appearances. It's a list that starts with Ernie Lombardi, who became a repeat Reds All-Star when he made his Midsummer Classic appearance in 1937.

Somebody on the raging purple dumpster fire that is the 2025 Rockies had to be an All-Star. To be fair, Goodman’s .843 OPS is fourth in MLB among catchers with at least 200 plate appearances. He gets in over Cubs backstop Carson Kelly (.879 OPS) because, well, again, the Rockies needed somebody.

Rosters for the 2025 All-Star Game, to be played July 15 in Atlanta, don’t necessarily represent a changing of the guard within Major League Baseball. Yet the 64 players selected to the National League and American League rosters announced July 6 indicate another wave of fresh talent has landed.