Rooker in HR Derby

[NukeDogg]

7th slugger to accept an invitation this year. The official 8:

Byron Buxton
Cal Raleigh
Brent Rooker
Ronald Acuna Jr.
Junior Caminero
ONeil Cruz
James Wood
Jazz Chisholm

 

[jethreauxdawg]

Judge scared?

 

[HotMop]

7th slugger to accept an invitation this year. The lineup so far:

Byron Buxton
Cal Raleigh
Brent Rooker
Ronald Acuna Jr.
Junior Caminero
ONeil Cruz
James Wood

One spot still up for grabs

No Judge or Ohtani? That's weak.

 

[NukeDogg]

No Judge or Ohtani? That's weak.

I don't follow it closely enough to know who's gotten invited, who turned it down, etc. I gotta imagine the reigning champ gets an auto-invite, and then they start down the list of HR leaders...

Guess Judge and Ohtani must be scared

 

[Bulldog Bruce]

I know Alonso turned it down this year.

 

[jethreauxdawg]

I know Alonso turned it down this year.

Busch league

 

[thatsbaseball]

Is he our first guy in HR derby ?

 

[PBRME]

Is he our first guy in HR derby ?

Pretty sure Palmeiro and possibly Clark were in it.

 

[msudawg12]

Pretty sure Palmeiro and possibly Clark were in it.

Raffy in '98 and '04

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Home_Run_Derby

 

[seshomoru]

They need to change it from most in a certain amount of time to who can hit it the longest home run in a certain number of swings. Invite the top 8 from each league. Rook would still be in it. He hit one in Tampa that broke a window in the ISS.

 

[NukeDogg]

Cal Raleigh - 36 HR - 1st in MLB
James Wood - 24 HR - 8th
Junior Caminero - 23 HR - 9th
Byron Buxton - 20 HR - 16th
Brent Rooker - 19 HR - 17th
Jazz Chisholm - 17 HR - 28th
ONeil Cruz - 16 HR - 36th
Ronald Acuna - 11 HR - 93rd

 

[theoriginalSALTYdog]

Hope Rooker wins but I'm going to have to go with "The Big Dumper" Cal Raleigh. . . . .

 

[StillTbonewannabe]

Raffy in '98 and '04

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Home_Run_Derby

Raffy finished like 5th then 3rd. Only Bulldog to go.

 

[karlchilders.sixpack]

Looks like he had 17. Leader at 21.

 

[dawgstudent]

 

[jethreauxdawg]

That’s some crap.

 

[RocketDawg]

Rounded, about 8/10ths of a foot - a little over 8 inches. Seems I've heard that before ....

 

[karlchilders.sixpack]

What's that, about 1 1/2 inch? Ha ha

 

[ZombieKissinger]

I got less than an inch

 

[She Mate Me]

Rounded, about 8/10ths of a foot - a little over 8 inches. Seems I've heard that before ....

Make that 8/100ths of a foot. Less than an inch.

Something tells me the margin of error on their HR estimator is more than that.

 

[Msuirondawgs]

Hope Rooker wins but I'm going to have to go with "The Big Dumper" Cal Raleigh. . . . .

Big Dumper is having the season of a lifetime and that was cool to see his brother catching and his dad throwing to him

 

[dorndawg]

I haven't heard that much banter about an athlete's asss since the Michael Sam draft.

 

[StillTbonewannabe]

Not sure if it is true but they originally said that they were going to a sudden death face off but then came back with this ********.

Rooker already got screwed by his pitcher running out of balls and so he got shorted two hits. He literally just got to stand there while time ran out with nothing to hit.

 

[beachbumdawg]

Not sure if it is true but they originally said that they were going to a sudden death face off but then came back with this ********.

Rooker already got screwed by his pitcher running out of balls and so he got shorted two hits. He literally just got to stand there while time ran out with nothing to hit.

Owner of the travel ball org he played for in HS threw to him last night - Joe Caruso (east coast Sox)