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The first half of the 2016 season wrapped up Sunday, and MLB's elite are now converging on San Diego, California, for Tuesday's Midsummer Classic.

The San Diego Padres are hosting the event for the first time since 1992, when 2016 Hall of Fame inductee Ken Griffey Jr. was the MVP.

This year's event has an odd twist to it, as the American League will be the home team despite the game taking place in a National League park.

Lineups for the 2016 MLB All-Star Game in San Diego were revealed at a press conference Monday afternoon in Southern California, and San Francisco Giants hurler Johnny Cueto and Chicago White Sox ace Chris Sale were tabbed as the starting pitchers for this year's Midsummer Classic, per Bleacher Report's Scott Miller. 

The first half of Major League Baseball's 2016 season wrapped up Sunday, and the game's top performers are now on their way to San Diego, California, for the 2016 MLB All-Star Game on Tuesday.

The Midsummer Classic's festivities kick off Monday, highlighted by the Home Run Derby, which will air at 8 p.m. ET on ESPN.

The duty of making up the All-Star lineups is left to American League manager Ned Yost of the Kansas City Royals and National League manager Terry Collins of the New York Mets.

It's one of many jobs both men have in the All-Star Game. The two 2015 World Series managers want to knit together the best lineups possible, work nearly every reserve into the game and find a way to win the contest for their respective leagues.

The MLB All-Star break has arrived, and while our attention will turn to the festivities in San Diego for the next few days, we are also just a couple of weeks from this year's Aug. 1 non-waiver trade deadline.

So how do our MLB power rankings shape up heading into the break?

The Chicago Cubs and Texas Rangers continued to limp their way into the break, and we again have a new No. 1 team after the Cleveland Indians charged to the top spot last week but were unable to hold on.

Major League Baseball's 87th Midsummer Classic will assemble the best players from the 2016 season's first four months. 

On Tuesday, July 12, this year's edition will be from Petco Park, home of the San Diego Padres. The city of San Diego had also hosted the All-Star Game in 1992 from Jack Murphy Stadium and in 1978 from San Diego Stadium. 

Fantasy baseball gamers need the MLB All-Star break nearly as much as the players.

Managing a fake baseball squad is a thankless job with no off days. There's a reason fantasy football has commanded more mainstream popularity. Instead of setting one lineup a week, MLB fiends must monitor leagues on a daily basis for half the year.

More than midway into the season, owners of rotting rotisserie squads are realizing an epic comeback isn't happening. But don't give up this far into the game.

The 2016 MLB Home Run Derby is an exciting precursor to the All-Star Game at Petco Park in San Diego, where eight contestants will battle for boasting rights as the evening's top slugger on Monday.

First, the bad news: The 2016 MLB Home Run Derby—which airs Monday at 8 p.m. ET on ESPN—will not feature big-raking San Francisco Giants left-hander Madison Bumgarner, an affront to the baseball gods if ever there was one. 

With Yasiel Puig mired in another disappointing season, it's reported the Los Angeles Dodgers may look to move the young outfielder ahead of the August 1 MLB trade deadline.

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