Aaron Blair Aaron Blair Aaron Daniel Blair (born May 26, 1992) is an American professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. Blair attended Spring Valley High School in Spring Valley, Nevada and played for the school's baseball team. Blair then attended Marshall University, where he played baseball for the Marshall Thundering Herd baseball team. The Houston Astros selected him in the 21st round of the 2010 Major League Baseball Draft but decided to go to college instead. The Arizona Diamondbacks selected Blair with the 36th pick of the 2013 Major League Baseball Draft. He was traded to the Atlanta Braves by
Major League Baseball the game by fans. The fan voting was discontinued after a 1957 ballot-box-stuffing scandal in Cincinnati: seven of the eight slots originally went to Reds players, two of whom were subsequently removed from the lineup to make room for Willie Mays and Hank Aaron. Fan voting was reinstated in 1970 and has continued ever since, including Internet voting in recent years. The 2002 contest in Milwaukee controversially ended in an 11-inning tie when both managers ran out of pitchers. In response, starting in 2003 the league which wins the All-Star game received home-field advantage in the World Series: the league