Main League Baseball has finalized the eight-person discipline for subsequent Monday’s House Run Derby. The total listing of members:
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 occasions 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 happening at Arlington’s Globe Life Subject. Beneath the collective bargaining settlement, the Derby winner will obtain $1MM. The runner-up takes house $500K, whereas each different participant receives $150K. The participant who hits the longest house run wins $100K.
This yr’s occasion entails just a few rule adjustments, as Buster Olney of ESPN just lately wrote. The primary spherical now not options head-to-head matchups. The highest 4 house run hitters will transfer to the second spherical, with the longest homer serving as a tiebreaker. MLB can 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).
