The 2026 MLB Home Run Derby volition beryllium held connected July 13 astatine Citizens Bank Ballpark successful Philadelphia, location of the 2026 MLB All-Star Game. While we don't cognize precisely which players are participating yet, commitments are dilatory coming successful arsenic that day approaches.
Here is each subordinate who has officially committed to the 2026 MLB Home Run Derby.
Kansas City Royals slugger Jac Caglianone is the latest to perpetrate to participating successful the Home Run Derby connected Monday successful Philadelphia.
Five Kansas City players person antecedently participated successful the event: Bo Jackson (1989), Danny Tartabull (1991), Mike Moustakas (2017), Salvador Perez (2021) and Bobby Witt Jr. (2024). None person travel distant with the title. This is the archetypal Derby for the 23-year-old Caglianone.
Witt was the runner-up successful 2024 erstwhile helium deed 50 location runs successful total. He deed 13 HRs successful the last round, 1 shy of Teoscar Hernandez’s 14.
In his archetypal afloat play with the Royals, Caglianone is hitting .258/.322/.455 (77-for-299) with a team-high 14 location runs and 33 RBIs successful 85 games. His 14 location runs person averaged 418 feet successful length, which is tied for the champion mean successful the majors this season. Caglianone has besides gotten blistery of late, with 9 of those 14 homers coming successful June.
New York Yankees slugger Ben Rice volition beryllium swinging for the fences successful Philadelphia connected July 13. Rice, who leads the Yankees with 26 homers this play aft going heavy successful a 6-4 nonaccomplishment to Tampa Bay connected Tuesday, said that helium volition beryllium participating successful the Home Run Derby.
"I was truly honored. I was hoping they’d ask,' said Rice, who'll purpose to go the archetypal Yankees subordinate to triumph the derby since Aaron Judge successful 2017. 'It doesn’t consciousness existent until they really scope out, but it was chill erstwhile they did."
The 27-year-old Rice said connected societal media that his father, Dan, who pitched successful assemblage astatine Brown successful the 1980s, volition propulsion to him. Rice said they've already been practicing for the contest.
'I had to deliberation done it and marque definite it was the close determination to enactment and spot if my dada could bash it," Rice said, noting that his begetter has thrown to him from the clip helium learned to play to the present.
Rice has 59 homers implicit his archetypal 3 seasons successful the majors.
This is the 2nd consecutive a twelvemonth a Yankees subordinate volition look successful the Home Run Derby. Jazz Chisholm Jr. entered past twelvemonth but was eliminated successful the archetypal round.
Judge is 1 of 4 Yankees players to triumph the Home Run Derby. The others are Tino Martinez (1997), Jason Giambi (2002) and Robinson Canó (2011).
Just hours aft committing to participating successful the lawsuit successful Philadelphia connected July 13, Junior Caminero homered successful his 5th consecutive game, a three-run changeable disconnected the Royals' Noah Cameron. It was his eighth successful the past 7 games — thing cipher successful nine past has ever accomplished — and it sent Tampa Bay to a 10-4 rout of Kansas City successful the opener of their three-game series.
Asked to enactment Caminero's blistery streak successful perspective, Rays manager Kevin Cash replied: "I don't cognize if I can. He's truly seeing the shot well," Cash said, "and erstwhile helium gets a shot to hit, he's doing it."
Caminero, the AL subordinate of the week aft launching 7 homers and piling up 15 RBIs, enactment connected a amusement past twelvemonth successful the Home Run Derby. With his multicolored bat sending societal media ablaze, Caminero precocious to the last circular earlier losing a adjacent contention to Seattle slugger Cal Raleigh. The last was 18-15 successful a long-ball hitting showcase that boosted ratings connected ESPN.
Caminero, who turned 23 connected July 5, went connected to deed 45 homers past season, finishing sixth successful Major League Baseball. Through July 7, Caminero has 26, with 11 successful his past 14 games.
"I mean, convey God he's connected our team," Rays pitcher Griffin Jax said with a smile. "The mode he's doing it with the powerfulness and the not chasing and the not whiffing is conscionable truthful impressive."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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