Stanton to defend Home Run Derby on home turf

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On Monday night, Stanton gets to defend his crown on home turf as the Derby comes to Marlins Park.

Unlike last year, Stanton gets a crack at the big game on Tuesday as he was selected for his fourth All-Star Game. Due to injuries, Stanton missed two of them.


Stanton, who hit his 26th homer of the season Sunday in San Francisco, flew across the country to get back to South Florida for the events.

Teammate Justin Bour isn?t on the All-Star team, but he is also part of the Derby for the first time. So, to, is Yankees phenom Aaron Judge.

Last year was Stanton?s second Derby and he became the first Marlins player to win it.

 

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The official 2017 Home Run Derby is Monday night at Marlins Park, but one could argue that the entire first half of this Major League Baseball season has been an endless Home Run Derby, as power hitters from coast to coast are on pace to smash the league?s home run records out of the park.

One of every 6.8 hits was a homer through the end of June, and 11 players had already reached 20 home runs with more than half the season to go. Last season, a record 111 players finished the year with 20 or more homers. That number could reach 130 this year.

Batting practice is becoming as entertaining as the games in many parks. Aaron Judge, the New York Yankees? 6-7, 282-pound rookie phenom, draws huge crowds for BP at home games, where fans watch from a ?Judge?s Chambers? seating area and show up in black robes and long white cotton wigs. They ?ooh? and ?aah? as the slugger crushes towering fly balls over the fences in every direction.

In early May, Judge obliterated a TV set on the left field terrace at Yankee Stadium with a blast that traveled in the neighborhood of 475 feet. A few weeks later, in Oakland, he knocked two into the Plaza Reserve upper level, nearly hitting an unsuspecting fan in the head.

Judge?s major-league-leading 30th home run Friday broke Joe DiMaggio?s franchise record for rookies, and according to Statcast, he also boasted the hardest hit (121 mph) and longest (495 feet at home against the Orioles on June 11) homers of the season.



Said Stanton: ?I think it will be the most exciting one in a long time, actually. Some good lefties in there to get that upper deck. Power righties, also. So it?s going to be good.?

Stanton and Judge are the headliners, but there are plenty of other power hitters who could put on a show.

The rest of the field includes the Marlins? Justin Bour, the Yankees? Gary Sanchez, the L.A. Dodgers? Cody Bellinger, the Minnesota Twins? Miguel Sano, the Colorado Rockies? Charlie Blackmon and the Kansas City Royals? Mike Moustakas.

Judge and Blackmon were already headed to Miami as fan-elected starters for Tuesday?s All-Star Game. Sano, Stanton, Bellinger and Sanchez were selected as reserves.

Sanchez has an average exit velocity of 109.8 mph, second only to Judge among players with 10 or more home runs. He missed a month of the season with a biceps injury but still managed 13 home runs.

 

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MLB - HOME RUN DERBY - Jul 10 @ BetaGame.ag





Jul 10 - 8:00 PM ODDS TO WIN 23RD ANNUAL HOME RUN DERBY
3701 GIANCARLO STANTON +150
3702 AARON JUDGE +165
3703 CODY BELLINGER +700
3704 MIKE MOUSTAKAS +1250
3705 MIGUEL SANO +700
3706 CHARLIE BLACKMON +1250
3707 JUSTIN BOUR +1250
3708 GARY SANCHEZ +1250

 

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Park Factors.

 

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i am playing for 1 unit :

Justin Bour wins Home Run Derby +1450

 

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i am playing for 1 unit :

Justin Bour wins Home Run Derby +1450

Me too...and I will be there !

 

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i am playing for 1 unit :

Justin Bour wins Home Run Derby +1450

Played some on Bour to beat Stanton exact result 60/1

I simply do not see how anyone else besides Stanton comes out of his side of the bracket so if Bour wins it would be against stanton:0corn