MLB All-Star Game: Each team’s worst All-Star selections ever
Detroit Tigers – Robert Fick (2002)
The early part of the 21st century were not very kind to the Detroit Tigers and nothing illustrates that more than seeing Robert Fick represent them at the 2002 All-Star Game.
Another victim of the “every team gets represented rule”, Fick was the lone representative from the 2002 Detroit Tigers team that went 55-102 and scored just 575 runs on the season. A right fielder, Fick was batting .290/.352/.479 with 11 home runs and 40 RBI at the time of the selection. However, his selection over DH Randall Simon may have been more due to the fact that the game was played in a National League ballpark (Miller Park), hence no DH.
Fick did see some quality time in the game and left his mark, going 1-for-2 with a stolen base and a run scored. As a matter of fact, his run scored represented the last run of the game, tying it at 7-7 in the top of the eighth. Of course, the game itself would be called at a tie after 11 innings, making Fick’s contribution even more infamous.
The right-fielder would deliver a .245/.304/.378 slash-line and just six home runs and 23 RBI down the stretch, perhaps succumbing to the Detroit curse in the second half or perhaps proving he really wasn’t All-Star material to begin with.
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