all-star team

Add Kaiden Bailey from Santa Margarita, Luke Barnett from Mater Dei, Brannon Martinsen from JSerra, and a Southland all-star team could travel the country and take on anyone.

Hernández, 32, who signed a one-year contract with the Dodgers last January, made the All-Star team and hit 33 home runs, not counting all the ones he hit to win the home run derby.

Eladio Castelo Gómez, now 73, recalls being on a local all-star team with Valenzuela when the phenom, then skinny and shaggy-haired, was only 16 or 17.

Both were prominent contributors in the first half, Smith making his second straight All-Star team and Stone positioning himself for National League rookie-of-the-year consideration.

Napoli was the only one to make an All-Star team.