Main League Baseball has finalized the eight-person discipline for subsequent Monday’s House Run Derby. The complete listing of individuals:
Alonso and García return from final yr’s occasion. The New York first baseman is within the occasion for the fifth consecutive time. Alonso received back-to-back instances in 2019-21 (there was no Derby in 2020 due to the pandemic) however has successively been knocked out by Julio Rodríguez within the final two occasions. García was dropped by Randy Arozarena within the first spherical final yr. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. received the occasion however determined to not attempt to defend his title.
This yr’s festivities are going down at Arlington’s Globe Life Discipline. Underneath the collective bargaining settlement, the Derby winner will obtain $1MM. The runner-up takes residence $500K, whereas each different participant receives $150K. The participant who hits the longest residence run wins $100K.
This yr’s occasion includes a couple of rule modifications, as Buster Olney of ESPN just lately wrote. The primary spherical now not options head-to-head matchups. The highest 4 residence run hitters will transfer to the second spherical, with the longest homer serving as a tiebreaker. MLB can also be limiting hitters to 40 swings per spherical and is altering the bonus spherical from a clock to a restrict of three outs (4 if a participant hit a 425-foot homer within the bonus spherical).
