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More info than you could possibly want about 2015's All-Stars: Part Deux

ASG Roster Breakdown Part 2: Country of Origin

Last week we took a look at this year's All-Star players by the numbers, covering everything from their ages to the value of their last names in Scrabble.

Now brace yourselves for All-Star Roster Breakdown 2: The Remix. We sorted all 76 All-Stars based on nationality, alma mater, Draft round, and whether they played "Mortal Kombat" or "Street Fighter" growing up. Well, we made that last one up, but you get the point.

There are more sleepers than blue chips this year as less than half of the players selected were picked in the first two rounds of the MLB Draft. One went undrafted entirely. As for their path to the big leagues, 54 percent signed out of college while 30 percent of them were drafted right out of high school straight into the pros.

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The rest signed as international free agents.

Without further ado, here's a look at where all of this year's All-Stars came from, capped off with some facts and trivia, because what's the point in keeping maticulous statistics tracing back more than a century if you can't turn it into a party trick every once in a while?

By Draft round

1st: (32) Brad Boxberger, Ryan Braun, Kris Bryant, Madison Bumgarner, Gerrit Cole, Josh Donaldson, Prince Fielder, Todd Frazier, Adrian Gonzalez, Alex Gordon, Yasmani Grandal, Sonny Gray, Zack Greinke, Bryce Harper, Adam Jones, Clayton Kershaw, Manny Machado, Andrew McCutchen, Shelby Miller, Mike Moustakas, Joe Panik, Glen Perkins, A.J. Pollock, Buster Posey, David Price, Chris Sale, Max Scherzer, Mark Teixeira, Mike Trout, Troy Tulowitzki, Justin Upton and Michael Wacha

2nd: (4) Nolan Arenado, Jason Kipnis, D.J. Lemahieu and Giancarlo Stanton

3rd: (3) Zach Britton, Wade Davis and Brett Gardner

4th: (4) Brandon Crawford, Dee Gordon, Yadier Molina and Jonathan Papelbon

5-10: (11) Chris Archer, Dellin Betances, A.J. Burnett, Jacob deGrom, Brian Dozier, Paul Goldschmidt, Matt Holliday, Brock Holt, Dallas Keuchel, Mark Melancon and Anthony Rizzo

After 10th: (8) Jose Bautista, Lorenzo Cain, Russell Martin, J.D. Martinez, Joc Pederson, Albert Pujols, Trevor Rosenthal, Hector Santiago and Stephen Vogt

Undrafted: (1) Darren O'Day

Signed internationally: (12) Jose Altuve, Miguel Cabrera, Aroldis Chapman, Nelson Cruz, Alcides Escobar, Felix Hernandez, Kelvin Herrera, Jose Iglesias, Carlos Martinez, Jhonny Peralta, Salvador Perez and Francisco Rodriguez

By college conference (and school)

Colleges

SEC: Donaldson (Auburn), LeMahieu (LSU), Papelbon (Mississippi State), Wacha (Texas A&M), Keuchel (Arkansas), O'Day (Florida), Scherzer (Missouri), Gray (Vanderbilt) and Price (Vanderbilt)

JuCo: Martin (Chipola College), Bautista (Chipola College), Rosenthal (Cowley County CC), Pujols (Maple Woods CC), Cain (Tallahassee CC) and Santiago (Okaloosa-Walton CC), Harper (Southern Nevada)

Pac 12: Kipnis (Arizona State), Cole (UCLA), Crawford (UCLA), Melancon (Arizona) and Boxberger (USC)

ACC: Posey (Florida State), Teixeira (Georgia Tech), Braun (Miami) and Grandal (Miami)

Big Ten: Frazier (Rutgers), Perkins (Minnesota) and A. Gordon (Nebraska)

Big East: Panik (St. John's) and Pollock (Notre Dame)

Conference USA: Dozier (Southern Mississippi), Holt (Rice)

Other: Vogt (Azusa Pacific), Sale (Florida Gulf Coast aka Dunk City), J.D. Martinez (Nova Southeastern), D. Gordon (Southeastern), deGrom (Stetson), Goldschmidt (Texas State), Bryant (San Diego), Gardner (College of Charleston), and Tulowitzki (Long Beach State)]

By country

USA: (59) see state-by-state breakdown below

Venezuela: 6() Altuve, Cabrera, Escobar, Hernandez, Perez and Rodriguez

Dominican Republic: (6) Bautista, Cruz, Herrera, Martinez, Peralta and Pujols

Cuba: (3) Chapman, Grandal and Iglesias

Canada: (1) Martin

Puerto Rico: (1) Molina

By state of birth

California: (15) Arenado, Boxberger, Braun, Britton, Cole, Crawford, Fielder, Gonzalez, Jones, LeMahieu, Moustakas, Pederson, Stanton, Tulowitzki and Vogt

Florida: (11) Davis, deGrom, Donaldson, D. Gordon, Greinke, Machado, J.D. Martinez, McCutchen, O'Day, Rizzo and Sale

New Jersey: (3) Frazier, Santiago and Trout

Texas: (3) Holt, Kershaw and Miller

Georgia: (2) Cain and Posey

Missouri: (2) Rosenthal and Scherzer

North Carolina: (2) Archer and Bumgarner

Nevada: (2) Bryant and Harper

New York: (2) Betances and Panik

Oklahoma: (2) Keuchel and Holliday

Tennessee: (2) Gray and Price

Arkansas: Burnett

Colorado: Melancon

Connecticut: Pollock

Delaware: Goldschmidt

Iowa: Wacha

Illinois: Kipnis

Louisiana: Papelbon

Maryland: Teixeira

Minnesota: Perkins

Nebraska: A. Gordon

Mississippi: Dozier

South Carolina: Gardner

Virginia: Upton

Did You Know?

• Prior to Goldschmidt, the last player from Delaware to appear in an All-Star Game was Dave May in 1973. Goldschmidt, May and Chris Short are the only players ever born in the state of Delaware to play in an All-Star Game.

• Vogt is the first Azusa Pacific graduate to be named an All-Star. In fact, he's only the second Asuza Pacific alum to be named to a professional All-Star team, joining two-time NFL Pro Bowl running back Christian Okoye.

• Speaking of firsts, Santiago is the first former Okaloosa-Walton player to be named an All-Star.

• Bautista and Martin are two of just three Chipola College attendees to be selected to the All-Star Game. The other was left-hander Patrick Corbin, who made the NL All-Star team in 2013.

• This is the first time that multiple players born in Nevada (Harper and Bryant) have been selected to the same All-Star Game. The only players born in Nevada to previously appear in the Midsummer Classic are Harper (2012-13), Mike MacDougal (2003) and Barry Zito ('02 and '06).

• With his fifth All-Star selection, Price has now been named to more All-Star teams than any other Vanderbilt alum. Fellow Commodores pitcher Rip Sewell, who was named to four straight All-Star teams from 1943-46, is the only other Vanderbilt attendee with more than one All-Star selection.

• Perkins is the first Minnesota alumni to be named an All-Star in three consecutive seasons since his manager, Paul Molitor, received four straight All-Star selections from 1991-94. Molitor made seven All-Star appearances overall, second-most among Minnesota alums behind fellow Hall of Famer Dave Winfield (12).

• Wacha is the first Texas A&M pitcher to make the All-Star Game and the first former Aggie to be named an All-Star, regardless of position, since 1997 (Chuck Knoblauch).

• Frazier is the first Rutgers alum to be selected to multiple All-Star Games. The only previous Rutgers players to qualify for the Midsummer Classic were Bob Tewksbury (1992) and Eric Young (1996). Queue obligatory Bruce song:

• Grandal is the first Cuban-born catcher to be selected to the All-Star Game since Joe Azcue in 1968. Iglesias' selection, meanwhile, marks the second straight season that a Cuban shortstop was named to the AL club after Alexei Ramirez received the honor last season. Prior to Ramirez, the last Cuban-born shortstop to appear in a Midsummer Classic had been Bert Campaneris in 1977, the last of his six All-Star appearances.