"From what I was the first couple years I was here to what I am now," Bubic says, "... I don't consider myself the same person or same pitcher as I was then."

Major League Baseball is great because you can never quite predict how a season will play out. Coming into the year, if we'd been told the Kansas City Royals wo

Kris Bubic’s first All-Star game selection is a bit more of a surprise, but maybe it shouldn’t be. He’s “only” 7-6, but with a 2.36 ERA in 103 IP, in which he’s only given up 32 BB against 107 K. That puts him at 7th in fWAR and 8th in bWAR in all of MLB.