Elly De La Cruz named a National League All Star for second straight year

There are some notable names absent from the roster, thought!

Elly De La Cruz will suit up again for the National League in the 2025 MLB All Star Game in Atlanta.

The rosters were released on Sunday afternoon shortly after the Reds dropped their series finale to the Philadelphia Phillies, with Elly being – for now – the lone representative of the Reds on the NL squad.

Major League Baseball relayed the roster reserves on Twitter, with Elly included there as Francisco Lindor of the New York Mets will presumably be the team’s starter at shortstop.

Elly owns an .836 OPS with 18 homers, 22 steals, and 60 RBI through his club’s first 90 games this season, with eyes on a potential 40/40 season still very much in sight.

MLB also announced the pitching staff for the National League today, and notably absent from this group is one Andrew Abbott.

Abbott entered Sunday having been valued at 2.9 bWAR by Baseball Reference – good for the best mark among all Reds pitchers so far this year and second only to Elly (3.1) on the club altogether. He’s also 7-1 with a 2.15 ERA (208 ERA+) through 83.2 IP so far this season, with said ERA ranking as the 6th best among the 90 MLB pitchers who have logged at least 80 IP so far in 2025.

Abbott, though, will likely have a chance to be added to the roster once we find out which pitchers are slated to pitch next weekend in the final regular season games before the All Star break (and therefore wouldn’t be ‘ready’ to pitch in the game itself). As things stand, Abbott is slated to only pitch once more (on Wednesday) before the break, so he’d be fresh and ready to step in for someone else already on the roster who’s unable to go.

Congrats to Elly and only Elly, for now, as he’ll be once again a very deserving All Star repping the NL in 2025.