MLB Home Run Derby Gameday Thread

By admin — In News — July 13, 2026

   ​I’m not sure how much traction this will actually get, since it’s being shown on Netflix this year. We canceled our Netflix subscription in January last year, after they announced another price hike, and really haven’t particularly missed it since then. So we will not be watching the Derby this year. But some of you might, and if so, please feel free to use the thread to discuss it. There are some interesting changes to the format this year, so below find discussion of that, the contenders, and so forth.Date: Monday, July 13Time: 5 p.m. Arizona time (the pre-derby coverage begins an hour earliers)Watch: Netflix. That’s it. No other (legal) option.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementFun fact, the last time there was a HR Derby in Philadelphia was back in 1999. The finalists that year ended up being Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire. Bonds took the title after homering on his three final swings. He did not have to pee into a cup afterward.While Schwarber is the MLB home-run leader, with 31, there are a few players here who haven’t exactly stood out in the first half. Eighteen players have hit more than twenty home-runs this year. Half the field – Harper, Contreras, Murakami and something called a Caglianone – are not among them. The last-name is ranked equal 49th in homers so far. Also, if you want to cheer on the NL, but do not wish to do so for the Phillies (who inexplicably have two representatives – where was this benevolence in 2011?), you get Jordan Walker. He is the only other representative from the Senior Circuit.Things have been switched up this year. Most notably? Gone is the clock – it’s back to swings. Here’s what happens.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementRound 1. All eight players compete. The four hitting the most home-runs move on to the semi-finals.Semi-finals. #1 will face #4, and #2 will face #3, head-to-head.Final. The winner of the semi-finals will meet for the title.20 swings in Round 1, 15 swings thereafter.If you homer on your final swing, you can keep going until you do not.Tiebreakers: Longest homer distance (Round 1); a swing-off of three swings (semis and final)Home Run Derby ChampionKyle Schwarber             +325Junior Caminero            +400Munetaka Murakami     +550Ben Rice                       +600Bryce Harper                +700Jordan Walker               +700Jac Caglianone              +750Willson Contreras         +1600Most consecutive HRs by any player to start Round 1Over/Under      5 homersLongest HR streak by any player after 20th swing of Round 1Over/Under      4 homersTotal home runs hitOver/Under      118.5 homersDistance of longest HR hitOver/Under      484.5 feetMost HRs by any player in Round 1Over/Under      13.5 homersRound 1 Home Run TotalsBen Rice                       o/u 9.5Bryce Harper                o/u 8.5Jac Ca  

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