Cal Raleigh wins 2025 HR Derby
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The Home Run Derby, one of the biggest events in baseball, crowned a new winner. But who took home the coveted $1 million prize?
MLB's biggest fireworks show of the summer takes place a little more than a week after July 4. The 2025 T-Mobile Home Run Derby is tonight. Eight of the best sluggers in baseball will be swinging for the fences inside Truist Park in Atlanta.
Though the restrictive law remains intact in Georgia to this day -- portions have been blocked in federal court -- MLB decided in November 2023 that the punishment had gone on long enough and the 2025 All-Star Game was awarded to Atlanta .
Major League Baseball connects the dates of the event and the MLB All-Star Game in Atlanta to Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron.
The Nationals’ 22-year-old slugger has a blast at the All-Star Game’s signature event. Actually, he has 16 of them, which is not enough to get into the semifinals.
Amid some injury setbacks and offensive regression, the Braves hit the All-Star break with a 42-53 record that put them more than a dozen games back of the lead in the National League East division. As a result, contending teams are hoping to see the team trade away its competitive players and embark on a significant rebuild.
We have your one-stop shop for the most power-packed day of the baseball year as the 2025 Derby champion is crowned.
Seattle Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh enters the Derby as the favorite, with his MLB-leading 38 home runs at the All-Star break just one short of Barry Bonds' first-half mark from 2001 – the year he went on to set the single-season home run record.