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Gillette and Major League Baseball will donate a significant amount of money to charity through the 2014 event. Before the sluggers of the Midsummer Classic take the field, let's review the Home Run Derby's participants and preview what's different this time around. Here is the bracket for the event, with the eight players seeded according to their home run totals through July 13. Machado has been getting insanely unlucky with his balls in play this season (.229 BABIP), so he's got nothing to lose by leaving it on all of the field for a Midsummer Home Run Derby.
In 2012, he did it in 465 plate appearances and finished third in the NL Rookie of the Year voting. This year, he has done it in just 400 PA and has 67 games left to play in order to set a new career high in longballs. Frazier was one of just two derby participants to go deep on Sunday. In fact, he has homered in each of his last two games, breaking a -- you guessed it -- long home run drought of 84 plate appearances prior to those two shots. Frazier is the only participant in this year’s derby never to have played in Target Field. A pure righthanded pull hitter, Bautista loves hitting at Target Field.
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Salt Bae was pathetically thirsty to get World Cup selfies and pissed off Argentina in the process Salt Bae grabbed the damn cup like he won the thing ... Kevin Durant has a shot at the top of the all-time NBA scoring list too Using math, we calculate where on this prestigious list Kevin Durant might end up. My only concern with my first lineups is the dearth of left-handers, which might mean it's better to have Brandon Moss instead of Cespedes, or Anthony Rizzo instead of Goldschmidt. While I like variety, the more important thing is to have those eight players in the Derby. I don't think there's going to be a grassroots campaign from Reds fans to get him in the Derby.
He's not quite matching Stanton's power, but he's been very consistent, boasting a league-best .350 batting average while sending 20 balls out of the park. In June, MLB named José Bautista of the Toronto Blue Jays and Troy Tulowitzki of the Colorado Rockies the Home Run Derby captains. On July 8, 2014, the captains each made their first three picks, while saving their final pick for July 10. On April 22, he set the pace for the league with a 462-foot, 116.1-mph home run that was the furthest and hardest-hit home run of the season at the time.
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The broadcast will also be available online for those with subscription access to WatchESPN. Viewers with MLB.TV subscritpions can also watch the event live. The total amount of money distributed will be determined by the home runs hit during the competition. For each orange FlexBall home run hit by a participant throughout the Gillette Home Run Derby, Gillette and Major League Baseball will combine to donate $10,000 to designated charities. Gillette and MLB will combine to make an additional donation of $5,000 for every non-FlexBall home run hit throughout the 2014 Gillette Home Run Derby.
They will receive 30 additional seconds in a round if they notch at least two home runs that travel more than 440 feet. This season, the event will take place Monday, July 9, at 8 p.m. LOS ANGELES -- Hours before the 2022 T-Mobile Home Run Derby on Monday at Dodger Stadium, Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera was asked who he planned to root for during the marquee event. Naturally, he picked his countryman, Braves star Ronald Acuña Jr. “I have to stick with Acuña, although he... After a long wait for his next turn, Stanton put up a zero in the semifinals and let Frazier advance with only one.
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Morneau is a candidate in the Final Vote to make the All-Star team. That means that only one member of the remaining top five home run hitters in the league will be added to Bautista's side. He has a choice of Baltimore's Nelson Cruz , the White Sox's Jose Abreu and Detroit's Victor Martinez . Stanton leads the National League in home runs with 21, but he has been so much more than just a power hitter this season. The Gillette Home Run Derby will once again raise funds for MLB's Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities program and Boys & Girls Clubs of America, as well as charities selected by the captains. More than $3 million has been raised for charity over the past 10 years, including an all-time high of $615,000 donated in 2012.
Competitors who will join Bautista include 2013 Derby champion Yoenis Cespedes of the Oakland Athletics, outfielder Adam Jones of the Baltimore Orioles and second baseman Brian Dozier of the host Minnesota Twins. Home run leader Giancarlo Stanton of the Miami Marlins, outfielder Yasiel Puig of the Los Angeles Dodgers and third baseman Todd Frazier of the Cincinnati Reds. The final competitor in each league will be announced on Thursday. As the league attempts to increase the event's pace and further tantalize viewers, participants will only be given seven outs per round rather than the previous 10.
He fell victim to an upset for the ages -- but there's certainly no shame in falling to one of the sport's all-time legends. LOS ANGELES -- There was no three-Pete in the T-Mobile Home Run Derby. Pete Alonso’s bid to become the first slugger to win three straight Derby titles came up short Monday night at Dodger Stadium, as the Mets' first baseman was ousted in the semifinals by Julio Rodríguez, the Mariners’... He wants to go and flip his bat after every successful homer, walking back to the dugout to get a new bat every danged time. Also a possibility for the final NL spot is Tulowitzki's teammate and former Minnesota Twin Justin Morneau.
Dozier is not among this year’s crop of 81 All-Stars, but while his inclusion in the derby is obviously a gesture to the hometown fans, his rank on this list proves that he’s deserving of the spot. His two home runs against the Rockies on Sunday, the first multi-homer game of his career, gave him 18 for the season, more than any other AL participant other than the slumping Donaldson. Then again, those 18 taters rank just 12th in the league and tie Dozier’s career high, which was set in 623 plate appearances last year. In his first four professional seasons, spanning 1,953 plate appearances from rookie ball to the majors, he hit just 22 longballs. Both in his career and in 2014, Dozier has hit exactly half of his home runs at home in Target Field, but in both cases has done so in fewer plate appearances than he has had on the road.
The second and third place finishers from each league will advance to the second round. They will get another seven outs in a head-to-head matchup. The winner will advance to face the top seed in the semifinal. The winner from the American League side will then advance to face the winner from the National League side in the finals. Since the start of the 2010 season, the four-time All-Star has hit 169 home runs, which ranks second in the Majors behind Miguel Cabrera of the Tigers.
"If he wins that final vote, there's possibly a chance," Tulowitzki said. "I think it would make a storyline. Played with the Twins all those years. He's definitely on the list if he makes the team. There are some other guys as well that have lobbied and would be good choices." The focus for many baseball fans has already turned to the All-Star Game, but Monday is one of the most interesting events in all of sports, the 2014 Home Run Derby.
Stanton has 138 career homers, which is tied with Cabrera for fourth-most in Marlins history, and he is just 16 away from Uggla, who is the franchise's all-time leader with 154 homers. His 21 home runs prior to the All-Star break are currently tied for the fifth-most in Club history, and the most since Ramirez and Uggla each had 23 at the break in 2008. Since the start of 2010, Stanton's first season in the big leagues, his 138 homers rank fifth in the Majors.
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