2022 Home Run Derby participants

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• Joey Gallo
• MLB rumors: Max Kepler drawing trade interest
• Who won the Home Run Derby last year?
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• Rodríguez is looking to join some rare rookie territory, as the only first-year players who’ve won the Home Run Derby outright are the Yankees’ Aaron Judge in 2017 and the Mets’ Pete Alonso in 2019. He’ll become the 14th rookie to participate in the contest. At 21 years, 201 days old on Monday, Rodríguez will be the fourth-youngest Derby participant and could become the youngest winner. • Having missed considerable time early in 2022, Acuña has just eight home runs, tied with Vladimir Guerrero Jr. in 2019 for the fourth-fewest first-half homers for any Derby participant. Before this season, only Ivan Rodriguez and Brady Anderson had come into the competition having hit fewer -- Rodriguez will also be joined this season by Pujols, who has six homers in '22.

The ball deflected into right field for an RBI single that gave New York a 3-0 lead. The Red Sox hope for good news as lefty Chris Sale heads to see a specialist in Boston about the broken pinkie finger on his pitching hand. The 2022 MLB Home Run Derby, where the greatest hitters in the world will compete in a home run competition, takes place on Monday, July 18, 2022 (7/18/22) at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California. Veteran Albert Pujols showed us why at 42-years-old he's still playing in the league. Pujols announced last week that this will be his last season in The Show.

Joey Gallo

"I promised him back then -- half-serious, half-joking -- that he could throw to me if I was ever in the major league Home Run Derby," Mancini recalled in a Streamyard call the other day. The left-handed batter has pulled about two-thirds of his career homers. • No doubt it'll be fun for Olson to participate in the All-Star festivities at Coors Field, which ranks as MLB’s most offense-friendly stadium, and the sixth most in terms of home runs, per Statcast park factors. The Oakland Coliseum ranks near the bottom of the league in both categories. In his career, Olson has hit 67 homers on the road, compared with 59 at home. • Even with the pandemic-shortened 2020 and a couple of injuries, Soto is the 18th player in AL or NL history to hit at least 80 home runs by the end of his age-22 season.

• That 114.2 mph, 460-foot blast on May 4 -- which splashed down in the Kauffman Stadium fountains -- is the hardest-hit and longest homer Perez has hit in the Statcast era. • Olson has been a home run machine since the A’s called him up for good on Aug. 8, 2017. Only three players (Nelson Cruz, J.D. Martinez and Eugenio Suárez) have gone deep more times since that date than Olson . • Somehow, this is Gallo’s first big league Derby, and he has a chance to be the first Ranger to win the event since Juan Gonzalez in 1993. The former Los Angeles Dodger and current Texas Rangers shortstop became the eighth player to enter this year’s Derby. He was also named an All-Star replacement on Thursday, taking the spot of injured Toronto Blue Jays outfielder George Springer.

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• Pujols has the most big league home runs of any Derby participant. He's MLB's active leader in homers, with 685 in his career. Pujols could join fellow 600 home run club members Barry Bonds , Ken Griffey Jr. (1994, '98-99) and Sammy Sosa as a Home Run Derby champion. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. turned in one of the most memorable runner-up Derby performances of all time in 2019, a night in which he hit 91 home runs in an epic duel with eventual winner Alonso. Guerrero, however, reportedly won't be making a return this year.

Story knows Coors Field better than the others in the competition and is very familiar with the angles. "Straightaway left field is probably the easiest route" for a home run, Story said, "and it gets really deep to left-center. ... I'm not going to go straight down the line, but I'll go to left. "Ohtani. Man, honestly, it is amazing what he's doing. ... He's Babe Ruth. I thank God that he gave me the opportunity to see a player like him. To me, he's the best player in the game." Morgan struggled to throw strikes, but Alonso managed to reassure him, coax him along in the moment and hit enough home runs to win. Alonso's rounds of 2019 are reminders that the Home Run Derby participants can only be as good as their chosen pitchers allow them to be.

Who won the Home Run Derby last year?

Fans at Coors Field will get to watch some of the game's best power hitters launch baseballs into the thin air in Denver, Colorado, in the 2021 Home Run Derby. Two-story family room with 19-foot ceilings features a corner fireplace and a grand wall of windows. Island kitchen with built-in seating space and a walk-in pantry and flows into the dining area. Primary bathroom features French doors, dual vanities, garden tub, separate glass enclosed shower, linen closet and generous walk-in closet.

Since his first big power-hitting season in 2017, Ramírez has pulled 144 of his 163 home runs -- that's over 88%. No one has more pulled home runs than him over that time , and of the 75 hitters with at least 100 homers since 2017, no one has pulled a higher percentage of them (former Derby participant Alex Bregman is next at 82%). Alonso is the back-to-back defending Home Run Derby champion, winning in 2019 and '21, and he could become the first player ever to win three straight Derbies. Alonso is already one of just three players to win two straight Home Run Derbies, along with Yoenis Céspedes ( ) and Ken Griffey Jr. ( ). Griffey is the only player to win three total Home Run Derbies, also winning in 1994. • In his final season, Pujols has one last chance at a Derby crown.

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Cron, who get the benefit of being able to slug at Coors Field. • Schwarber has been among the hottest hitters in baseball since the calendar turned to June. The left-handed slugger has 18 home runs since June 1, three more than any other hitter over that period. A hot summer is becoming a habit for Schwarber -- he hit 16 long balls in the month of June last season. The 2022 T-Mobile Home Run Derby will take place at Dodger Stadium on Monday at 8 p.m. So, who will be swinging for the fences in Los Angeles?

• Even with a slow start, Seager is well on his way to setting a career-high in home runs this season. Seager already has 22 home runs -- the most he’s had in a single season coming into the year was 26 during his rookie season in 2016. The Rangers shortstop has been red-hot in July, with seven home runs -- tied for second-most in baseball -- including a streak of five consecutive games with a homer.

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"I don't think he was sure if it was good news or bad news," Mancini said. This year’s event poses to be an exciting one with eight competitors taking rips in front of the Dodger Stadium crowd. Before jumping into it, we’ll take a look back at last year’s winner. You can wear the same gear as your favorite players by buying official hats, shirts, hoodies, and jerseys now.

He's participated in four Home Run Derbies in his career (2003, '07, '09 and '15), the first three as a Cardinal, but has yet to win one. Pujols reached the finals in his first Derby, but lost to Garret Anderson, 9-8. His 71 total Home Run Derby home runs are eighth-most in the history of the contest. It has been a storybook season for Orioles first baseman Trey Mancini. A year after beating cancer, Mancini has enjoyed a productive season in the middle of Baltimore's lineup and now will get to show off his power at the Home Run Derby. Mancini has established himself as a premier power hitter, and at 531 games earlier this year, became the fastest Oriole in franchise history to reach 100 home runs.

He’s the 11th player to hit as many as 33 home runs before the All-Star break, but of course the first to do so while also pitching regularly . On Friday, he became the first player since Barry Bonds and Luis Gonzalez in 2001 to go deep at least 33 times in his team's first 87 games. • Alonso has hit 131 career homers in the Derby, the most of any player in a career -- ahead of Joc Pederson’s 99. Granted, the more recent, timed format has made this possible. Alonso also holds the records for most homers in a first round, with 35 in 2021, and a final round, with 23 in each of the Derbies he’s done.