Here’s the NL HR Derby team, with a look at where their HRs this season would have landed at Target Field pic.twitter.com/YeyGU5zqPT
— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) July 8, 2014
By Jon Weisman
Above is a chart from ESPN Stats & Information that gives you a flavor of what this year’s Home Run Derby — co-starring Yasiel Puig, we learned today — would look like, if this year’s Home Run Derby were the first 3 1/2 months of the baseball season compressed into one night.
But not only does this year’s Home Run Derby not resemble that, it doesn’t even resemble last year’s Home Run Derby. Anthony Castrovince of MLB.com summarizes the key differences:
