Judge Tops Sano In Home Run Derby Finals

Anyone else think Jamie Foxx looks a little like Byron Buxton?

I can see the resemblance.

It was cool to have Sano make the finals and represent the Twins. The timed format is nice, though the straight bracket leads to situations where Bohr was eliminated after hitting 22 HR. It's a showcase, and I thought Sano represented the team well. Hope all 3 Twins have a chance to play tomorrow!

His pitcher wasn't giving him very good pitches even in the first round. Seemed to get worse each round

Minor correction, it's two home runs of 440 ft to get the bonus :30.

I wish Sano had gotten better pitches to swing at because I think he'd have put on a ridiculous show, but Judge is just a freak. I'm sure we'll get to see him try again next year!

Get in shape, Miguel! You can beat Judge next year!!

Fernando Tatis was horrible. The pace strategy didn't help either. He really got lucky getting through the first round. I thought he might have more gas when he was able to quit with about a minute left in the second round. My favorite homer was Sano finally deciding he just had to swing at anything and golfing that low and outside pitch out! Aaron Judge is a monster.

Is there a list of all the homer distances for each player and each homer somewhere? I can't find it if there is, but it would seem there would be one.....

Next year, please have Judge hit first in a round so we can see ust how many bombs this guy could hit in a full 4:30. 

He sure made it look easy.

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I keep trying, but I'm just not a fan of the Derby. I even went in person at Target Field. It's just so repetitive.

That said, I'm glad (and not surprised) to see Sano have a big showing.

The seedings of the thing were absurd. Stanton and Judge were rightfully 1 and 2. However, putting Moustakas and especially Bellinger ahead of Sano was flat out ridiculous.

Clearly a popularity contest, which is fine. But, why call it "seeding." You're not "seeding," you're trying to cherry pick semi-final and final match-ups (e.g., they really wanted Bellinger in the semis).

Judge is unreal. The ease with which he hits homeruns is pretty amazing. Sano gave one of the best HR Derby performances ever, IMO, and was totally overshadowed.

The seedings of the thing were absurd. Stanton and Judge were rightfully 1 and 2. However, putting Moustakas and especially Bellinger ahead of Sano was flat out ridiculous.

 

Clearly a popularity contest, which is fine. But, why call it "seeding." You're not "seeding," you're trying to cherry pick semi-final and final match-ups (e.g., they really wanted Bellinger in the semis).

 

Judge is unreal. The ease with which he hits homeruns is pretty amazing. Sano gave one of the best HR Derby performances ever, IMO, and was totally overshadowed.

It was seeded, after Stanton, returning champ, by the number of home runs hit this year, Bellinger has hit 25 bombs this year compared to Sano's 21. They weren't cherry picked. Sano did great, but he was really lucky to have gone the route he went. Any of the other opening round matchups and Sano would have been one and done. His pitcher was bad, it would be nice to see all of the hitters have to use the same pitcher?

I wonder if Stanton had beaten Sanchez in the first round, would they have penalized or disqualified him for constantly breaking the rule stating that you can't throw the next pitch until the previous hit has landed.. 

He broke that rule so many times that the announcers even commented on it.

I believe this is what you're looking for: https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/hr_derby

Thank You! That is awesome. What a great graphic presentation! Wow!

I wonder if Stanton had beaten Sanchez in the first round, would they have penalized or disqualified him for constantly breaking the rule stating that you can't throw the next pitch until the previous hit has landed.. 

 

He broke that rule so many times that the announcers even commented on it.

Agreed. But a dumb rule. It should be changed. Go as fast as you want. If is is safety one is concerned about, then get all the silly catchers off the field. Scattered balls would look cool, too. The catchers just get in the way of the whole thing. 

While safety is certainly a factor, what with all those children running around in the outfield, they also want people to watch the majestic home runs. Throwing up pitch after pitch sounds OK, but would actually detract something from the viewing audience, especially the television audience.

And we mustn't have that!

On another note, I liked this format but no one hit more home runs than Bour in a single round except Judge, and he only did it once (to beat Bour). Bour put on quite a show. Same number of HR in his one round as Sano had in his first two rounds combined.

Maybe next year Sano can get Gibson to throw to him??