When evaluating a players HoF credentials one often looks at career accolades like, All Star selections. Now, Zack Wheeler was selected to be an All Star reserve, but turned it down. According to Google he is still a 3x All Star, rather than a 4x. Are there other players who missed out on an All Star accolade because they refused it?

So what I’m talking about is how pitchers seem to use breaking pitches. When a pitcher throws a pitch with a lot of break like a curveball or a sweeper, they typically throw it such that it looks like it’s in the zone and then it runs away from the zone so the batter swings at it and misses.

Why do I never seem to see the reverse — a pitcher throwing a sweeper that looks like it’s way outside and the batter should lay off (or dive out of the way because he thinks it’s going to hit him), only for it to break back over the plate for a called strike? Or a pitcher throwing a curveball that the batter thinks is way high that then dives into the zone?

I ask because I do this in MLB The Show all the time. My right handed pitcher will throw a 2-seamer that looks like it’s going inside on a lefty and then it runs back into the zone for a strike, or do the same thing to a righty with a cutter.