These are the superpowers the 2015 MLB All-Stars wish they had
The superpowers the 2015 MLB All-Stars wish they had
There are a number of superpowers that would be immensely helpful to a ballplayer. Can you imagine turning invisible at the plate -- how do you even establish a strike zone against an invisible batter? Or pulling a Reed Richards? With arms the length of foul poles, a home run would never go un-robbed again.
So, we asked a few of the players selected to the 2015 MLB All-Star Game presented by T-Mobile that very question: What's their dream superpower?
But, in lieu of invisibility and super-stretching, there was a clear consensus among many of the the All-Stars when asked to choose a superpower.

(We thought Paul Goldschmidt might go with his off-the-field All-Star ability -- math -- but as he knows, that's a skill, not a superpower.)
Flying makes sense. It has that whole home-run robbing ability but it's just a bit flashier than stretching your arms really long. It would also make "flying around the basepaths" very literal. And, as Joe Panik points out, it has some non-baseball conveniences, too:
"So I could avoid traffic," he said.
Not everyone picked flying, though. Watch the video above to see how Chris Archer would trump even flying, and which power would give Nolan Arenado the ultimate advantage at the plate. Spoiler alert: Nobody said "super strength," probably because they all have that already.