Logan Morrison: Gary Sanchez ‘shouldn’t be in the Home Run Derby’

RF Aaron Judge announced officially Monday he was taking part in next week’s Home Run Derby in Miami.

Aaron Judge moved into a tie with Joe DiMaggio for the Yankees’ all-time rookie record for homers when he blasted his 29th bomb of the year in the fourth inning against the Blue Jays on Wednesday. He is batting.256 with 57 RBIs.

“I’m still waiting for the bill from the other one”, he said after the Yankees’ 4-1 loss to the Blue Jays on Tuesday. With Sanchez only at 13 home runs on the season, does Morrison make a fair point? A midseason call-up previous year for the Yankees, he was doing the Aaron Judge thing before Aaron Judge, hitting 20 homers in just 53 games. “That’s something that I have no control of”, said Sanchez, according to Dan Martin of the New York Post. The fans are going to enjoy it.

NY trailed 5-0 before the homer.

Sanchez said he told Major League Baseball officials that if he made the All-Star team, then he’d participate in the Derby. NY pitcher Luis Severino joked that there are rarely any balls left on the field. “It’s must-watch TV”. Morrison’s Rays, meanwhile, lag far behind the rest of the league in average attendance. Focused on the Yankees’ season, he wanted to wait until All-Star rosters were revealed Sunday night. Everyone’s comparing us to each other. He also did not allow a home run for the third straight start. As of Monday, Castro said he was unsure if the injury would keep him from next Tuesday’s game.

The Times reported Tuesday that the Major League Baseball process. determined in consultation with the players union, includes factors beyond current home run totals such as popularity, All-Star status, being a member of the host team and performance in previous seasons. Harper has 20 home runs this season, so it is a shame that he will not enter the contest for the third time. He hit 22 homers in 2015.

Although the high strikeout totals don’t show it, Judge has had much better plate discipline. “I get it”, he said.

“It’s an honor to participate in the event”, Sanchez added, via Bryan Hoch of MLB.com. “It was pretty surreal”, Judge said after initially being invited in June. “So I’m not trying to think about intentional walks”. Pick eight players at random and chances are several of them will perform worse in the second half than the first.