​The Cincinnati Reds, on the whole, are having a pretty miserable season. They sit nine games under .500 and in last place in their division, with even an outside shot at one of the myriad Wild Card spots painfully out of reach.They’ve dealt with injuries galore. Hunter Greene and Elly De La Cruz, the team’s two stalwarts and usual All Stars, each was shelved. The team’s entire back-end up of the bullpen hit the infirmary, while blisters have dogged starters Brady Singer and Nick Lodolo (2x) repeatedly. Even the indomitable Eugenio Suarez missed a month with an oblique strain, while CF has been a revolving door of hard-luck injury and underperformance, too.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementJust about the only two spots on the roster where we’ve been able to know exactly what to expect everyday have been those of Chase Burns and Sal Stewart, a pair of former 1st round picks by the Reds who’ve been forced to immediately graduate from ‘youth movement’ to ‘literally carrying the team’ this season.Burns and Stewart will rep the Cincinnati Reds in tonight’s MLB All Star Game, which will begin at some point after coverage starts at 8 PM ET in Philadelphia on FOX. They’ll do so as incredibly deserving participants, too.Burns rolls into the break having posted 4.2 bWAR across 18 brilliant starts. He’s 11-1 with a 2.54 ERA, 1.11 WHIP, and 10.3 K/9 across 102.2 IP, his ERA+ a sterling 173. The 4.2 bWAR has him tied for the 4th most valuable pitcher in the sport so far this season with Brewers ace Jacob Misiorowski, while FanGraphs (2.9 fWAR) ranks him as the 8th most valuable. Not bad!Sal, meanwhile, leads all rookies with 65 ribbies, a mark that’s tied with Pete Alonso for 9th most in the sport – and that’s with the Reds having spent most of the season with a blind bat holding a wet noodle in the leadoff spot in front of him. He has socked 19 homers, making him one of just six players in the sport to have hit that many and stolen at least 10 bases – he’s got 11 – alongside Zach Neto, CJ Abrams, Pete Crow-Armstrong, Miguel Vargas, James Wood, and Home Run Derby champ Jordan Walker. Overall, he’s hitting .256/.338/.474 with a 120 OPS+.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementNeither will start the game, and Burns – who’s dealing with a minor groin problem he picked up playing defense in his final start of the first half – won’t participate at all. Sal, though, will hopefully get some run at some point late in this one.Here’s how both the AL and NL will line up to start: