Some 100,000 online brackets were filled out for Monday night’s Home Run Derby, and if the questions here in the hours leading up to the event were any indication, some 999,994 had Aaron Judge or Giancarlo Stanton winning.
Let’s leave one spot open for a close family member of the other six contestants, including the Royals’ Mike Moustakas.
“I don’t know, man,” he said, laughing. “I don’t pay attention to that.”
Moustakas is tied for fifth in baseball and third in the American League with 25 home runs. That’s already his career high, and more than any Royals hitter has had before the All-Star break.