It's MLB Home Run Derby Day! Predictions, live updates and takeaways

It's 2025 MLB All-Star Home Run Derby time successful Atlanta!

Some of the astir dynamic location tally hitters successful shot volition beryllium taking purpose astatine the Truist Park stands connected Monday (8 p.m. ET connected ESPN) successful 1 of the astir anticipated events of the summer.

While the imaginable of a back-to-back champion is retired of the representation -- 2024 victor Teoscar Hernandez is not a portion of this year's tract -- a fig of breathtaking stars volition beryllium taking the field, including Atlanta's ain Matt Olson, who replaced Ronald Acuna Jr. conscionable 3 days earlier the event. Will Olson marque a tally successful beforehand of his location crowd? Will Cal Raleigh amusement disconnected the powerfulness that led to 38 location runs successful the archetypal half? Or volition 1 of the younger participants instrumentality the title?

We person your one-stop store for everything Derby related, from predictions to unrecorded updates erstwhile we get underway to investigation and takeaways astatine the night's end.

MLB Home Run Derby field

Cal Raleigh, Seattle Mariners (38 location runs successful 2025)
James Wood, Washington Nationals (24)
Junior Caminero, Tampa Bay Rays (23)
Byron Buxton, Minnesota Twins (21)
Brent Rooker, Athletics (20)
Matt Olson, Atlanta Braves (17)
Jazz Chisholm Jr., New York Yankees (17)
Oneil Cruz, Pittsburgh Pirates (16)

Who is going to triumph the Derby and who volition beryllium the runner-up?

Jeff Passan: Raleigh. His plaything is cleanable for the Derby: He leads MLB this play successful some propulsion percent and alert shot percentage, truthful it's not arsenic if helium needs to recalibrate it to succeed. He has besides go a prolific hitter from the close broadside this play -- 16 location runs successful 102 at-bats -- and his quality to power betwixt right- and left-handed pitching offers a imaginable advantage. No power hitter (or catcher for that matter) has won a Home Run Derby. The Big Dumper is primed to beryllium the first, beating Buxton successful the finals.

Alden Gonzalez: Cruz. He mightiness beryllium wildly inconsistent astatine this constituent successful his career, but helium is cleanable for the Derby -- young capable to person the stamina required for a taxing lawsuit that could go exhausting successful the Atlanta heat; left-handed, successful a ballpark wherever the shot carries retired amended to close field; and, astir importantly, susceptible of hitting balls astatine incomprehensible velocities. Raleigh volition enactment connected a bully show, from some sides of the plate, but volition travel successful second.

Buster Olney: Olson. He is efficaciously pinch-hitting for teammate, Acuna, and due to the fact that helium received connection successful the past 72 hours of his participation, helium hasn't had the signifier rounds that the different competitors person been going through. But he's the lone idiosyncratic successful this radical who has done MLB's Derby before, which means helium has experienced the accelerated pace, adrenaline and propulsion of the crowd.

His pitcher, Eddie Perez, knows thing astir performing successful a afloat stadium successful Atlanta. And, arsenic Olson acknowledged successful a speech Sunday, the parkland mostly favors left-handed hitters due to the fact that of the larger distances that right-handed hitters indispensable screen successful near field.

Jesse Rogers: Olson. Home tract vantage volition mean thing this twelvemonth arsenic hitting successful 90-plus grade vigor and humidity volition beryllium an other situation successful Atlanta. Olson understands that and tin gait himself accordingly. Plus, helium was a precocious addition. He's got thing to lose. He'll outlast the young bucks successful the field. And I'm not putting Raleigh immoderate little than 2nd -- his archetypal fractional screams that he'll beryllium successful the finals against Olson.

Jorge Castillo: Wood. His mammoth powerfulness isn't disputed -- helium tin jack baseballs to each fields. But the flimsy defect successful his powerfulness bundle is that helium doesn't deed the shot successful the aerial astir arsenic often arsenic a emblematic slugger. Wood ranks 126th retired of 155 qualified hitters crossed the majors successful alert shot percentage. And helium still has swatted 24 location runs this season. So, successful an lawsuit wherever he's going to bash everything helium tin to assistance baseballs, hitting alert balls won't beryllium an issue, and Wood is going to amusement disconnected that gigantic powerfulness en way to a triumph implicit Cruz successful the finals.

Who volition deed the longest location tally of the nighttime -- and however far?

Passan: Cruz hits the shot harder than anyone successful shot history. He's the prime here, astatine 493 feet.

Gonzalez: If you exclude the Coors Field version, determination person been conscionable six Statcast-era Derby location runs that person traveled 497-plus feet. They were compiled by 2 men: Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton. James Wood -- each 6-foot-7, 234 pounds of him -- volition go the third.

Olney: James Wood has the casual Stanton- and Judge-type power, and helium volition wide the Chophouse with the longest homer. Let's accidental 497 feet.

Rogers: Hopefully helium doesn't injure himself doing it, but Buxton volition interruption retired his monolithic spot and crush a shot astatine slightest 505 feet. I don't spot him advancing acold successful the event, but for 1 swing, he'll ain the night.

Castillo: Cruz hits baseballs hard and far. He'll crush a fewer bombs, and 1 volition scope an adjacent 500 feet.

Who is the 1 slugger fans volition cognize overmuch amended aft the Derby?

Passan: Buxton capped his archetypal fractional with a rhythm connected Saturday, and he'll transportation that into the Derby, wherever helium volition punctual the satellite wherefore helium was baseball's No. 1 imaginable successful 2015. Never has Buxton's endowment been successful question, conscionable his health. And with his assemblage feeling right, he's got the accidental to enactment connected a amusement fans won't soon forget.

Olney: Caminero isn't a large sanction and wasn't a high-end imaginable similar Wood was earlier successful his career. Just 3½ years ago, Caminero was dealt to the Rays by the Cleveland Guardians successful a comparatively insignificant November commercialized for pitcher Tobias Myers. But since then, helium has refined his quality to screen wrong pitches and is blossoming this twelvemonth into a subordinate with ridiculous power. He won't triumph the Derby, but he'll unfastened immoderate eyes.

What's the 1 infinitesimal we'll each beryllium talking astir agelong aft this Derby ends?

Gonzalez: The unthinkable distances and velocities that volition beryllium reached, peculiarly by Wood, Cruz, Caminero, Raleigh and Buxton. The hot, humid upwind astatine Truist Park volition lone assistance the mind-blowing powerfulness that volition beryllium connected show Monday night.

Rogers: The exhaustion connected the hitter's faces, swinging for location tally aft location tally successful the vigor and humidity of Hot-lanta!

Castillo: Cruz's 500-foot blast and a clump of different lasers helium hits successful the archetypal 2 rounds earlier moving retired of state successful the finals.