Top 10 Worst MLB All-Stars

Clueless fans are to blame for the All-Star Game selection of some of these B-teamers, while others benefited from baseball's requirement that each club supply a warm body. Here are the players who prove that to make baseball's Midsummer Classic — which this year will be played on July 14 in St. Louis — you don't actually have to be any good

Mike Williams, Pittsburgh Pirates (2003)

By SEAN GREGORY Tuesday, Jul. 14, 2009

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Over the past 17 years, National League All-Star Game managers have dealt with an annual dilemma: choosing a representative from the Pittsburgh Pirates, who haven't enjoyed a winning season since 1992. Among immortals like Ed Sprague and Carlos Garcia, one Pirate stands out for his unmerited All-Star status: Mike Williams, a relief pitcher who saved 25 of Pittsburgh's 41 first-half wins in '03, but did so while piling up a 6.44 ERA, proving that the save may be the dumbest statistic in sports. In one of their rare smart moves this decade, the Pirates dealt Williams to Philadelphia soon after the '03 All-Star break. He improved his ERA to 5.96 with the Phillies, but after the '03 season, Williams never pitched in the big leagues again.

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