Photo by Lachlan Cunningham/Getty Images Fans have received criticism for decades over their All-Star Game selections, but it turns out the players and commissioner’s office are even worse at it. The Oakland A’s are one of the better teams in the majors, a perennial contender having another strong winning season, but they only had one of their players picked for the AL All-Star team. That is both patently ridiculous, and exactly what A’s fans have come to expect from a league that simply won’t acknowledge our team’s existence. Oakland is not an upstart contender. They went to the postseason each of the last three years, and last summer they won their division and then also a playoff series. And right now they are 11 games over .500 at 50-39, and if the season ended today they would comfortably win the second Wild Card for a fourth straight trip to the playoffs. They are objectively a good team.