FanGraphs Live! Friday 2:00 ET: The Home Run Derby on MLB The Show
While we’re back to watching games of actual baseball, the 2020 All-Star Game and its related festivities were cancelled. We streamed the virtual Futures Game a few weeks ago and today, it’s time for our MLB The Show Home Run Derby.
To make the cut for our derby, a player needed to have 28 homers in the American League and 24 in the National League by the All-Star Break. One very young player will participate: power-hitting sensation Keston Hiura of the Milwaukee Brewers. It’s not a Glove Derby, after all. Just missing the cut were Charlie Blackmon in the National League and Matt Olson and, perhaps most shockingly, Ryan O’Hearn in the American League.
