By Thomas Gibbons

The 2019 MLB All-Star startling lineups were announced Thursday afternoon and two Cubs were announced to take the field for the start of the Midsummer Classic in Cleveland on Tuesday, July 9th: Willson Contreras and Javier Baez

Contreras will be the first Cubs catcher to start consecutive AllStar games since Gabby Hartnett did so in 1936 and 1937. Baez becomes the 4th player to the Allstar game in back-to-back years at different positions.

Javy Baez and Willson Contreras are the first Cubs teammates to start in back-to-back All-Star Games since Ryne Sandberg and Andre Dawson in 1990-91. It's the 19th time that the Cubs have had multiple starters and 4th time the team has had teammates start in consecutive years.

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Through 69 games this season, Contreras is slashing .300/.395/.586 with an OPS of .981 along with 17 home runs and 48 runs batted in. Contreras ranks 8th among NL batters in OPS. Over to Baez, he is slashing .287/.326/.548 with an OPS of .874 through 78 games with 19 HRs and 52RBIs.