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2013 MLB All-Star Game: Why Starting Mariano Rivera Is a Foolhardy Enterprise

class="ui-droppable">There has been an increasing movement on social media to urge Jim Leyland to select famed Yankees reliever Mariano Rivera as the starter for this summer's All-Star Game.  Most of the push is coming from Yankees supporters in the gargantuan New York media market.

Make no mistake, Rivera deserves to be in the All-Star Game.  He has 16 saves in 16 opportunities, giving up only 3 runs in 18 frames of work.

However, I think starting him is a bad idea, for several reasons that amount to jeopardizing home-field advantage for the Yankees or another AL team this October.

The first is that Mariano Rivera is a closer, not a starter. As a starter, Rivera has a calamitous 5.94 ERA, surrendering ...

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