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While the All Star teams won't be announced until later tonight, we have a pretty good idea who most of the starters will be thanks to the fan voting. What we usually have to wait a bit to find out about, though, is who the starting pitchers will be in the game. That won't be the case this season, as word has leaked out that this years starting pitchers will be Cleveland's Cliff Lee and Arizona's Brandon Webb.

Cliff Lee, who had to fight for a job in Cleveland's rotation this spring, will be the starting pitcher for the AL, the Post reported. Lee is 11-1 with a 2.26 ERA.

He'll go against Arizona's Brandon Webb, who will be playing in his third consecutive All-Star game and getting his first starting assignment.

It's pretty hard to argue against either selection, as Cliff Lee has been one of the lone bright spots for the Indians this season, and Brandon Webb is, well, Brandon Webb.

In the American League, Terry Francona probably could have picked either Lee, Joe Saunders, Mike Mussina, Roy Halladay, and Gavin Floyd without getting too much flak for it. Other candidates in the National League included Aaron Cook, Ben Sheets, Edinson Volquez, and Tim Lincecum, but it looks like Webb's reputation preceded him.