Cal Raleigh Wins 2025 Home Run Derby with Record 54 Homers

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00:00Seattle's Cal Raleigh with 38 homers at the break the most in the bigs also hit the most

00:05needed last night for a home run derby championship and a lot of swag 54 in total 17 in round one

00:1419 in the semis to outlast the hard-hitting O'Neal Cruz of the Pittsburgh Pirates and in the finale

00:21he knocked off Junior Caminero of the Tampa Bay Rays with 18 big ones to win the 2025

00:27home run derby championship he was that favorite DRS at a plus 330 price about 20 cents in front

00:35of O'Neal Cruz the man he ousted in the semifinal round but just because he had hit the most home

00:41runs in regulation in the opening half of this year in Major League Baseball not always a direct

00:46correlation that the guy with the most homers is going to perform the best in the home run derby

00:51but we call it the year of the big dumper for a reason Raleigh delivers from both sides of the

00:57dish last night with his father Todd Raleigh throwing to him and his younger brother Todd

01:01Raleigh Jr. T as he is known catching behind the dish yeah pretty good stuff overall for Cal Raleigh

01:08and again coming in as the Major League Baseball home run leader at the all-star break it was great

01:12to see that a guy was able to hold up his end of the bargain and sort of put that sport on his back

01:16saying yeah I'm the leader at the break here I'm going to win this competition and he did and I got

01:20to tell you from a sportsbook angle from this he said boy it's usually devastation when the favorite

01:27actually wins something I don't think that was the case like just looking around multiple accounts

01:31last night you didn't see much a lot of love for Cal Raleigh because I thought like the complaints

01:36complaints the wrong word like I thought like the the backdrop of this was well anybody can win it

01:40most people are new to this thing let's take some plus money like Brent Rooker who feels he got robbed

01:44in round number one that was my guy to 10 to 1 price like he didn't win it but at no time did I look at

01:49and say like you know what let me take a flyer on Cal Raleigh the guy with the most home runs in

01:53Major League Baseball when typically most people would the O'Neill Cruises were popular you know

01:57maybe people taking a flyer on Jazz Chisholm or as I said Brent Rooker just on some longer prices to

02:03say these guys aren't used to the spotlight in this competition who's going to come away with this

02:06maybe even Matt Olsen you know hometown kid basically in the ballpark for the Atlanta Braves but

02:11it was Cal Raleigh all night long he provided that air support has meant to say long home runs volume of

02:17home runs he really showed out maybe opened the eyes to you know what there is an MVP race Ben in

02:24Major League Baseball this is not supposed to count I'm gonna tell you in the back of people's minds

02:30hey you know what Raleigh hit 60 home runs this year one home run derby maybe it's worth an extra

02:36couple votes even though it's not supposed to be included

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