Brendan Donovan, a second baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals, was selected as a National League reserve on Sunday, making him the fifth former South Alabama player selected for the Major League Baseball All-Star Game.
Atlanta’s Truist Park will host the 95th MLB All-Star Game on July 15 at 7 p.m. CDT. The game will be broadcast on FOX.
The game’s starting lineups were made public last week, and on Sunday, the pitchers and reserves were disclosed.
In his fourth season with the Cardinals, Donovan will be attending the All-Star Game for the first time. After his third season at South Alabama, the former Enterprise High School standout was taken by St. Louis in the seventh round of the 2018 draft.
Donovan has a.431 slugging percentage,.367 on-base average, and.296 batting average in 82 games this season. With 22 in 2025, he is fifth in doubles and fifth in batting average among National League batters.
Donovan, a versatile glove in the field, has appeared in 65 games for the Cardinals in 2025 as a second baseman, 17 in left field, 6 at shortstop, and 2 as a designated hitter.
Luis Gonzalez, formerly of South Alabama, played for the Arizona Diamondbacks in five MLB All-Star games in 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2005.
Chicago Cubs pitcher Jon Lieber was selected for one MLB All-Star Game in 2001, New York Mets outfielder Lance Johnson in 1996, and Cardinals third baseman David Freese in 2012.
The MLB All-Star Game starting lineups were determined by fan voting. Player votes were used to select eight pitchers and one reserve at each of the other nine positions for each league’s team. In order to guarantee that each team had at least one representation, the Commissioner’s Office then added six players to the rosters.
The starting lineups consist of:
The American League
Catcher: Seattle Mariners’ Cal Raleigh
First baseman: Toronto Blue Jays’ Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
Detroit Tigers second baseman Gleyber Torres
Jacob Wilson, Athletics, shortstop
Jose Ramirez of the Cleveland Guardians is the third baseman.
Outfielders: Riley Greene, Detroit Tigers; Javier Baez, Detroit Tigers; Aaron Judge, New York Yankees
Ryan O. Hearn of the Baltimore Orioles is the designated hitter.
League of Nations
Catcher: Los Angeles Dodgers’ Will Smith
Freddie Freeman of the Los Angeles Dodgers is the first baseman.
Second baseman: Arizona Diamondbacks’ Ketel Marte
Francisco Lindor, shortstop for the New York Mets
Third baseman: San Diego Padres’ Manny Machado
Outfielders: Kyle Tucker, Chicago Cubs; Pete Crow-Armstrong, Chicago Cubs; Ronald Acuna Jr., Atlanta Braves
Los Angeles Dodgers designated hitter Shohei Ohtani
Starting pitchers will be chosen by the managers of the Los Angeles Dodgers (Dave Roberts) in the National League and the New York Yankees (Aaron Boone) in the American League.
Hunter Brown and Josh Hader of the Houston Astros, Kris Bubic of the Kansas City Royals, Aroldis Chapman and Garrett Crochet of the Boston Red Sox, Jacob deGrom of the Texas Rangers, Max Fried of the New York Yankees, Yusei Kikuchi of the Los Angeles Angels, Andres Munoz and Bryan Woo of the Seattle Mariners, Tarik Skubal of the Detroit Tigers, and Shane Smith of the Chicago White Sox are the pitchers in the American League.
Jason Adam of the San Diego Padres, Matthew Boyd of the Chicago Cubs, Edwin Diaz of the New York Mets, MacKenzie Gore of the Washington Nationals, Clayton Kershaw and Yoshinobu Yamamoto of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Freddy Peralta of the Milwaukee Brewers, Robbie Ray, Randy Rodriguez, and Logan Webb of the San Francisco Giants, Chris Sale of the Atlanta Braves, Paul Skenes of the Pittsburgh Pirates, and Zack Wheeler of the Philadelphia Phillies are among the National League pitchers.
The Toronto Blue Jays’ catcher Alejandro Kirk, the Tampa Bay Rays’ Jonathan Aranda and Brandon Lowe, the Boston Red Sox’s Alex Bregman, the New York Yankees’ Jazz Chisholm Jr., the Houston Astros’ Jeremy Pena, and the Kansas City Royals’ Bobby Whitt, as well as the Minnesota Twins’ Byron Buxton, the Cleveland Guardians’ Steven Kwan, and the Seattle Mariners’ Julio Rodriguez, and the Athletics’ designated hitter Brent Rooker are among the American League reserves.
Along with Donovan, the National League reserves include the following players: outfielders Corbin Carroll of the Diamondbacks, Kyle Stowers of the Miami Marlins, Fernando Tatis Jr. of the San Diego Padres, and James Wood of the Washington Nationals; designated hitter Kyle Schwarber of the Philadelphia Phillies; catcher Hunter Goodman of the Colorado Rockies; and infielders Pete Alonso of the New York Mets, Elly De La Cruz of the Cincinnati Reds, Matt Olson of the Atlanta Braves, and Eugenio Suarez of the Arizona Diamondbacks.
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Mark Inabinett works for Alabama Media Group as a sports writer. You may follow him at @AMarkG1 on X.
