This year the All Star game festivities will be taking place in Cincinatti at Great American Ballpark (home of the Reds).
The Home Run Derby happens a day before the All Star game. In this event, the most powerful hitters in baseball step up to the plate and try to hit homeruns. The sluggers usually have a coach or someone related to them toss baseballs at them.
In the past years, the slugger that hit the most homers over the course of the competition would take the trophy.
This year, the rules are changing a bit.
The participating hitters will be competing in a single elimination tournament and the number of participants are going down from 10 people to 8 people.
The players will be seeded based on their home run total accumulated by June 7.
Instead of 10 outs, competitors will see how many bombs they can hit in 5 minutes and any that they hit in the last minute will get them bonus time.
I like this time change because the Derby will take less time and be more exciting.
Plus, it's at the Reds park which is really hitter friendly.
I'm looking forward to wAtching the sluggers compete, but I'm upset that Stanton and
Harper can't participate because they're fun to watch.
Overall, it's going to be a fun and exciting night of homeruns. Now, I can't predict who will win since I don't know who's participating, but when I know, I will predict the winner.
Hope you all tune in to the Derby because it will be an exciting event filled with fun and long homers.
Bleacher report.com
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