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NEW YORK – Julio Rodriguez’s real-life debut on the baseball world stage happened last year while performing the Electric Home Run Derby at Dodger Stadium. The star Seattle quarterback smashed a whopping 81 zinger—as a junior—and drew awe from the millions who tuned in, but more than that, from his All-Star peers as they finished second.
Now, Rodriguez will be aiming for the Derby title — and he’ll do it in his own backyard.
The 22-year-old Mariners star announced Friday via social media that he will be participating in this year’s event at T-Mobile Park. He is the first official entrant among the eight-man field scheduled to take the stage on Monday, July 10th.
Rodriguez has always looked destined for this derby since Seattle captured this year’s Midsummer Classic in September 2021, before making his Majors debut seven months later.
At the time, he had already demonstrated the kind of strength, gravitas, and flair as the most prominent face of the future franchise—and continued to live up to those lofty expectations on his way to winning the American League Rookie of the Year award. last season, with the derby arguably his biggest single event of their eventful year.
His rapid rise, performance last year and the fact that the host city usually has a representative at the sport’s premiere power event made him a strong candidate to be invited.
The last time it was held in Seattle, in 2001, Brett Boone competed. The Derby did not exist in the only other year that the Emerald City hosted the Midsummer Classic, in 1979 at the Kingdome.
With Boone, who also pitched in 2003, Rodriguez is one of only seven Mariners all-time participants, along with Jay Buehner (1996), Alex Rodriguez (1998), Edgar Martinez (2000), Robinson Cano (2016) and – Of course – Ken Griffey Jr., who has done it seven times and is the only three-time winner.
Rodriguez has derby experience, but he will still be among the youngest players ever in the event. At 22 years, 6 months and 12 days on July 10, Rodriguez will be the youngest Derby winner, besting Juan Gonzalez, who was 23 years, 265 days old when he won in 1993. Juan Soto, who beat Rodriguez last year, He is the second youngest by only one day (23 years, 266 days).
Speaking of last year, Soto may have taken home the hardware, but Rodriguez was easily the biggest star of the event. He knocked out two-time defending champion Pete Alonso, and thanks to the round format, Rodriguez racked up 28 more penalties than Soto, 81 to 53, though Soto outscored Rodriguez in the final round, 19 to 18.
When Rodríguez announced he was participating last year as a starter, he had already been selected to the All-Star Game. This is not the case this year, at least not yet. He hasn’t advanced to the second round of the All-Star voting, which starts Monday, but he could still get there via other methods.
Rodríguez entered Friday hitting .238/.300/.415 (.715 OPS) with 12 homers. He had some big moments his sophomore season while also racking up more inconsistencies at the plate, an up-and-down trajectory that reflects the overall showing of the Mariners, who are fourth in the AL West and have hovered around . 500 for most of the year.
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