onight is the big Homerun Derby to kick off the All-Start festivities. There have been quite a few people dropping out of the Homerun Derby and the game itself. I’ve noticed alot of people are doing this in the past few years. I’m since the game “means something” now, players (pitchers mainly) are not wanting to pitch, even an inning on a day or two rest.

Apparently quite of the pitchers in the All-Star game pitched Yesterday. This means that they will be pratically useless in the game Tomorrow on one full day rest.

It’s hard to say who’s going to win the derby. Last year I was thinking Andrew Jones would be shoe in with his home run count he had at the break last year. Who would have thought that Bobby Abreu would break the record. For that reason, I don’t think I’ll go with “Big Popi”. There are some new comers this season in the derby, namely Ryan Howard and David Wright. I’m pretty sure that Jermaine Dye, and Miguel Cabrera haven’t been in one either.

So this year, I’m going out on a limb and I’m gonna pick Miggy Cabrera. I personally don’t like the player, but he can hit. I’m going to say it’s going to come down to Big Papi, and Cabrera in the finals.

My finals bracket will look like this:
Round 1 (top 4):
Ryan Howard
David Ortiz
Miguel Cabrera
David Wright

Round 2 (top 2):
Miguel Cabrera
David Ortiz

Finals
Miguel Cabrera