Home Run Derby is tonight! Who do you got?! Going with 'The Big Dumper'?

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Home Run Derby is tonight! #mlb Who do you got?! Going with 'The Big Dumper'? We have Hammer the Scheim to help you decide?

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00:00Uh, no repeat champ because T Oscar is not a part of the action this evening.

00:05Am I correct about that, Sean?

00:06Correct.

00:06Greg, uh, no repeat champ this year.

00:08Uh, then the main headliner here is the big dumper himself, Cal Raleigh.

00:12Uh, that's the guy who's leading the charge here.

00:14The switch hitting catcher from the, uh, Mariners.

00:17He is your odds on favorite at plus two 95.

00:19I'm not going to pick, uh, the big dumper here.

00:22I think the man already, I think halfway through the season where we are right now, he has 38

00:28thongs he's crushing.

00:30He is just abs.

00:31I think he's on pace for 62 on the season, which is, uh, would be insane.

00:36But my pick tonight, I'm going to go with the nationals, big hitter, James Wood at plus four

00:4350, a man with the last name Wood has to carry some big wood.

00:46So, uh, give me James Wood at plus four 50.

00:50He's my favorite pick of the night, but Greg, I also have a prop bet for you that I know you're

00:54going to love.

00:54You have been very high on exit velo lately, especially when it comes to Roman Anthony's

01:02exit velo.

01:02You have been all over that.

01:04You can bet on who will have the highest recorded exit velo tonight in the home run derby, or

01:09I'm sorry, not tonight.

01:10Is it tonight?

01:10Yeah.

01:11Yeah.

01:11Tonight's home run derby.

01:12Um, and right now the odds on favorite would be O'Neal Cruz, big hitter.

01:17I will probably go with the odds on favorite O'Neal Cruz to have the highest recorded exit

01:24velo in tonight's home run derby.

01:26Okay.

01:26I mean, no sentiment when it comes to the hometown favorite Will Olson playing in front

01:35of the, Matt Olson, uh, in front of the hometown crowd.

01:38No, I mean, I think he'll be able to compete.

01:40Uh, it's not a bad bet.

01:42If you want to go for the winner there, he's eight to one.

01:44Uh, so you're getting good odds there.

01:46Honestly, the cool thing about the home run derby is nine times out of 10, anybody who's

01:49entered can probably win.

01:51So it's probably not a terrible idea to take a shot on one of those longer odds guys like

01:56a Matt Olson, or if you want to even go farther down, like a jazz Chisholm or a Byron

02:00Buxton.

02:01But, uh, I, uh, I'm a fan of, uh, of, uh, James Wood.

02:05Sorry.

02:06Is Raleigh going to switch hit in the derby?

02:08So that I don't know.

02:09And I think that's, I think that's to his detriment, right?

02:12Like he should just pick one side of the plate and keep swinging.

02:15He was showing off a little bit.

02:16Yeah.

02:16Home run derby is getting like slam dunk contours.

02:19Like, really?

02:20Like it's getting bad?

02:21Like, where's Aaron Judge?

02:23Where's Shohei Ohtani?

02:24Where's Juan Soto?

02:25Like guys, I, I barely even know what's going on.

02:28Like look back at like the 99 home run derby where you're getting Sosa and McGuire and

02:32Griffey.

02:33Where were all these guys?

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