Betting the 2026 Home Run Derby: Odds, analysis and predictions - ESPN

The 2026 Home Run Derby will feature a mix of familiar names and new faces.

Tampa Bay Rays phenom Junior Caminero was the first player to commit to this year's event, which will be held at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia on Monday night. He was initially joined by New York Yankees slugger Ben Rice, Kansas City Royals slugger Jac Caglianone, Boston Red Sox All-Star Willson Contreras and St. Louis Cardinals breakout star Jordan Walker.

After that, it was a pair of hometown stars in Bryce Harper and Kyle Schwarber's to join the fray. Finally, Chicago White Sox rookie Munetaka Murakami came off the IL and joined the field.

Like last year, the bracket format has been scrapped in favor of three rounds: First round, semifinals and finals. However, rounds will no longer be timed. In the first round, each player gets 20 swings. In the semifinals and finals, each player gets 15 swings. Any player who homers on his final swing of a round can keep batting until he fails to homer.

The players with the top four home run totals from the first round will advance to the semifinals, where they'll be seeded based on their first-round homer totals. They will face off head-to-head (No. 1 vs. No. 4 and No. 2 vs. No. 3) to determine the two finalists. First-round ties will be settled with the player who hit the longest homer advancing. In the semifinals and finals, ties will be broken by a series of three-pitch «swing-offs» until we have a winner.

Got it? Let's break down the field.

Home Run Derby: Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia (Monday, 8 p.m. ET)
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HRs: 26 | Longest: 463 feet

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