![]() Top seed Mark Trumbo of Baltimore will face Corey Seager of the Dodgers, while the most (only?) marquee match-up in the first round will have Seattle’s Robinson Cano against Giancarlo Stanton of the Marlins.Īgain, for the seventh straight season, no member of the Phillies is in the Home Run Derby.Ģ005 – Comerica Park, Detroit – Bobby Abreu (Champion) The winner of that head-to-head will face the victor between Reds slugger Adam Duvall and hometown hitter Wil Myers of San Diego. ![]() ![]() But the threat of weather shortened each round and the performance by Cincinnati’s hometown slugger (and Toms River, NJ native) Todd Frazier and youngster Joc Pederson, who each hit 39 dingers in the contest, made the event a huge success.įrazier, now a member of the White Sox, is back in 2016 to defend his crown, facing Colorado’s Carlos Gonzalez in the first round. There were a ton of reasons why the format shouldn’t have worked, including a five-minute clock on each participant with bonus time given for long homers. Last year - following four seasons where captains were selected in an effort to get bigger-named players to take part - the Home Run Derby was turned into a head-to-head bracket-style format with an American League slugger paired against one from the National League. Originally a contest between the American and National league in 1985, the derby has changed format almost as many times as the event has been held. The Home Run Derby has long been one of the marquee events of Major League Baseball’s All-Star Week.
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