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2026 MLB Power Rankings: Every Team's First-Half MVP

Occasionally, a team’s most valuable player isn’t the one going to the All-Star Game. Take the Pirates, for instance. Superstar Paul Skenes is the only Pittsburgh player who was named an All-Star when the teams were unveiled this weekend, despite his rotation mate Braxton Ashcraft having a lower ERA and more strikeouts in the same number of starts. Meanwhile, Brandon Lowe and Bryan Reynolds have helped lift the Pirates’ offense from the worst in Major League Baseball last year to one of the best this season, but both were among the biggest All-Star snubs after the initial announcement. So, for...