The 2025 MLB All-Star Game takes center stage on Tuesday night at Truist Park in Atlanta and Chicago Cubs teammates Pete Crow-Armstrong and Kyle Tucker will represent the North Side in the event. Left-hander Matthew Boyd also made the NL All-Star team, but will not pitch after starting the team's first-half finale and twirling a dominant outing against the New York Yankees.
No one will soon forget PCA or King Tuck. But some players tend to fade more from memory with each passing season. Here are 3 Cubs who were All-Stars in the last 15 years that few seem to remember with any regularity.
3 completely forgotten Chicago Cubs All-Stars from the last 15 years
1. RHP Wade Davis - 2017
In what would be the last truly great season of his career, Wade Davis was the Cubs' lone All-Star representative in the 2017 season. After winning the World Series, the Cubs lost closer Aroldis Chapman to free agency when he re-signed with the New York Yankees. Their answer was trading for Davis, who came to the Cubs from the Kansas City Royals in exchange for Jorge Soler.
It was a deal that benefited both teams as Soler eventually became a prolific slugger and Davis was a lockdown closer for the Cubs, albeit for only one season. But it was a season to remember as the veteran right-hander posted a 2.30 ERA over 58 2/3 innings pitched with 79 strikeouts, 32 saves and 56 games finished. Good enough to be the Cubs' only All-Star that year.
Although the actual All-Star Game didn't go that well for Davis, who surrendered the game-winning home run to Robinson Cano in the tenth inning, his performance during the postseason was the crown jewel of Davis' time in a Cubs uniform. With a one-run lead in the ninth inning of Game 5 of the NLDS, Davis struck out Bryce Harper to send the Cubs to their third straight NLCS.
2. 1B Bryan LaHair - 2012
Bryan LaHair was a first baseman with only one full season in the Majors under his belt. That season came in 2012, when the Cubs named him the starting first baseman and Anthony Rizzo began the season at Triple-A.
After hitting .284 with 13 home runs, LaHair was named a reserve player for the National League All-Star team in 2012 at age 29. LaHair played a total of 130 games for the Cubs that year, smacked 16 home runs and drove in 40 in what would be his only successful season in the big leagues.
Rizzo was eventually called up and took Lahair's spot at first base. That offseason, LaHair signed with the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks in Japan. After a pair of minor league stints with Cleveland and Boston, LaHair finished his playing career in the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball, where he retired after the 2017 season. He is now a coach with the Louisville Bats, Cincinnati's Triple-A affiliate.
3. OF Marlon Byrd
Over his 16-year career, outfielder Marlon Byrd's lone trip to the All-Star Game came in a Cubs uniform in 2010. That year, Byrd led a 75-win ball club with a 3.7 bWAR as the team's starting center fielder.
Byrd also compiled 39 doubles, 12 home runs, 66 RBI and a .775 OPS while leading the team with 170 hits. Although the Cubs didn't go anywhere in 2010, Byrd still had a pretty cool season that notched him an All-Star accolade.
Byrd would play for the Cubs for two and a half seasons before getting traded to the Boston Red Sox. Byrd played for 10 different teams in his career, which wound up marred by PED usage.
