2024 Home Run Derby Odds: Pete Alonso Leads as Favorite
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00:00Let's continue to set the stage for the 2024 Home Run Derby with the odds now associated.
00:09Pete Alonso is the favorite at a 3-1 price.
00:13He is 80 cents in front of Marcel Ozuna, plus 3.80 on Ozuna.
00:19Gunnar Henderson, plus 4.30, one of the few lefties that will be batting from that side
00:24of the dish tonight.
00:26Again, DRS, Pete Alonso looking for his third Home Run Derby title.
00:31Only Ken Griffey Jr. has won three since the start of the Home Run Derby way back in 1985.
00:39Correctly booked as the favorite, but let's take it even a step further.
00:43The odds to even reach a semifinal, Pete Alonso, minus 2.65 to get out of the opening round.
00:52All eight hitters will bat in the opening round.
00:55The four with the most home runs then go to the semifinals, where they will be slotted
00:59one versus four, two versus three to the championship match following.
01:04Yeah, and I guess in the first round, right, you're just going to lean on the guys that
01:08have been there, done that before, and are comfortable moving on and have done this.
01:11And also, sometimes we do it a little bit wrong in baseball, and I understand why it's
01:15not happening.
01:16Now, me, as I just told you about, you know, in the last couple segments, Joel Embiid shouldn't
01:20be playing in the Olympics.
01:21I'm worried about him in the regular season for the Sixers.
01:23I take a look, and I get angry that, like, Alex Bone is in this.
01:27He should not be in the home run derby, and he's like, oh, well, who else we're going
01:30to send for the Phillies?
01:31I don't know.
01:32Schwerber or Harper, who are playing right now with Donnie?
01:33They were injured.
01:34Oh, but they can play in the field and sprint to first and second base, but they just can't
01:38hit the home run derby.
01:39Tasker Hernandez is at 11-1 to win this thing here for the Dodgers.
01:42Well, who else did you want to send for the Dodgers?
01:44I don't know.
01:45Shohei Otani could be in this competition, so we really could have leveled up on multiple
01:48different angles.
01:49And the fact that Aaron Judge is not in this is a disgrace at this point.
01:53But we digress back to what we were talking about.
01:55Advancing to the second round, sometimes you just lean on where you're going to go and
01:59have you been there and done that before and what it takes to get to round number two.
02:02Because we have seen quite a bit guys that haven't been in before hit one or two.
02:06It's not because they're not great hitters or home run hitters.
02:08Once you get up on that big stage where you are the singular spotlight in front of that
02:12stadium to crush baseballs, it's a little bit different up there.