Overview

• MLB has finalized the eight-player Derby roster for July 14 at Truist Park with Brent Rooker and Jazz Chisholm Jr. announced as the final entrants.
• Rooker will be the first Oakland Athletics representative since Matt Olson in 2021 and arrives having hit 19 home runs with 50 RBIs this season.
• Chisholm becomes New York’s first Derby participant since Aaron Judge’s 2017 victory after launching 17 homers over his first 61 games with the Yankees.
• Several marquee sluggers turned down invitations, including two-time champion Pete Alonso, Kyle Schwarber, Bobby Witt Jr., defending winner Teoscar Hernandez, Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani.
• Social media users have expressed outrage over Eugenio Suarez’s exclusion despite his tie for fourth in MLB with 29 home runs this year.