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The Highest Possible Home Run Derby Total is…

Tom Dorsa
Jul 17, 2018
Major League Baseball, Statistics
On Monday night, Bryce Harper sent fans in Washington, D.C. into pure, unadulterated elation by smashing the living crap out of baseballs for a couple of hours. The Washington Nationals outfielder is no strange...

Home Run Derby in Trouble as Many Star Players Choose to Sit Out

Jason Kelly
Jun 24, 2018
Major League Baseball, Opinions & Predictions
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The Major League Baseball Home Run Derby is one of the most exciting spectacles of skill and power in sports today. However, its popularity may be waning across the league with an increasing number of players c...

Let’s Assemble The Perfect Home Run Derby

Tom Dorsa
Apr 28, 2017
American League, Major League Baseball, National League
The Home Run Derby, an annual slugging competition during Major League Baseball's All-Star week festivities, has forever been a fan favorite. While the format of the event has changed ever so often, the goal re...

Is There a Curse for Home Run Derby Winners?

Eric Kabakoff
Jul 13, 2016
Baseball History
The 2016 Home Run Derby has now come and gone. Every year on the night before the All-Star Game, players step up and swat the ball out of the park as often as they can and as far as they can, often to great eff...

Let the Players Commentate the Home Run Derby

Jake Hasan
Jul 12, 2016
Features, Opinions & Predictions
The 2016 Home Run Derby brought us another night of ridiculous power and a show of absolute dominance from Miami Marlins slugger Giancarlo Stanton, the eventual winner. The new bracket format with timed rounds ...

The Case for Pitchers in the Home Run Derby

Evan Marinofsky
Jun 27, 2016
Features, Headlines, Major League Baseball, Opinions & Predictions
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The All-Star games in all of the four major sports leagues (NHL, MLB, NFL, NBA) are starting to become irrelevant. If you're a player, it's an honor to be named to an All-Star team, but some would prefer to tak...

The Homers of Madison Bumgarner

Jeff J. Snider
Jun 15, 2016
Features, Opinions & Predictions, San Francisco Giants
Recently, there has been a groundswell of support for the idea of San Francisco Giants pitcher/slugger Madison Bumgarner participating in the Home Run Derby at this year's All-Star Game festivities. Along wi...

HR Derby standout Joc Pederson: Beyond the Batting Average

Niklas Jarvinen
Jul 14, 2015
Los Angeles Dodgers
Watching the Home Run Derby yesterday, we saw Todd Frazier put on an absolute show, but Frazier was the runner-up last year. I think this year's runner-up Joc Pederson, who hit 13 homers in the first round to a...

Can Joc Pederson End the Dodgers’ Home Run Derby Futility?

Jeff J. Snider
Jul 12, 2015
Features, Headlines, Los Angeles Dodgers, Major League Baseball, Opinions & Predictions
The Los Angeles Dodgers have a long and storied history in the Home Run Derby. Unfortunately, most of those stories are along the lines of, "Wow, those guys aren't very good at the Home Run Derby, are they?" ...

Bryce Harper shows us he’s human

Joshua Sadlock
Jun 4, 2015
Features, Major League Baseball, National League, Opinions & Predictions, Washington Nationals
Thirteen home runs. Twenty-eight RBIs. Twenty-two walks in 26 games. Judging by those May numbers, you could be forgiven for forgetting that Bryce Harper is actually of this planet, but he is. A bum shoulder...
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