The Amazing Race: National League Shortstop All-Star

This season could provide baseball fans with one of the greatest arguments in a long time. That argument is: Who should start on the National League All-Star Team at shortstop?

J. J. Hardy is off to a spectacular year and currently leads the National League in homeruns and RBI so it would be tough to vote against him. The biased part of me still wants to vote for Jose Reyes and the unbiased part of me wants to also because Jose Reyes is still the MVP of the best team in the National League. The voters probably will vote for Jose Reyes since he has the advantage of playing in New York but if all cities were equal the shortstop voting would be very close. It wouldn't just be J. J. Hardy and Jose Reyes though, there are as many as five shortstops in the National League that you could make an argument for.

The six guys I'm talking about are Jose Reyes and J. J. Hardy as I said before and also Philadelphia Phillies shortstop Jimmy Rollins, Atlanta's Edgar Renteria, and Hanley Ramirez of the Florida Marlins.

If you want an idea of how good this crop of shortstops is then all you have to do is look at the league leaders for the National League. Almost every category is littered with shortstops.

Runs
1st Hanley Ramirez
2nd Jimmy Rollins and Jose Reyes
3rd Edgar Renteria
6th J. J. Hardy

Hits
1st Jose Reyes
3rd J. J. Hardy
4th Edgar Renteria and Hanley Ramirez
5th Jimmy Rollins

Doubles
5th Jose Reyes
7th Hanley Ramirez and J. J. Hardy
9th Edgar Renteria

Triples
1st Jose Reyes
2nd Jimmy Rollins
4th Hanley Ramirez

Homeruns
1st J. J.Hardy
5th Jimmy Rollins
8th Edgar Renteria

RBI
1st J. J. Hardy
3rd Chase Utley
8th Jimmy Rollins

Steals
1st Jose Reyes
4th Hanley Ramirez
6th Jimmy Rollins

Batting Average
4th Hanley Ramirez
6th Jose Reyes
7th Edgar Renteria
9th J. J. Hardy

Total Bases
1st J. J. Hardy
3rd Jimmy Rollins
5th Jose Reyes
9th Hanley Ramirez

Runs Created
1st Jose Reyes
3rd J. J. Hardy
4th Hanley Ramirez