Major League Baseball took a serious swing at improving the Home Run Derby, releasing a revised set of rules Sunday.
The biggest change is the introduction of a clock. In the past, hitters kept hacking until they made a certain number of "outs" or non-home runs. Now, they'll have five minutes to bake as many taters as possible, though they'll be able to stop the clock with home runs hit in the final minute.
MLB will also trim the number of participants from 10 to eight, and it'll sort them into a single-elimination bracket, with seeding based on players' home run totals as of July 7.