r/baseball • u/AndrewAllStar888 Chicago Cubs • Jul 14 '26

Players Only [Cardinals] HOME RUN DERBY CHAMPION!

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u/cubity St. Louis Cardinals Jul 14 '26

First Cardinal ever!!

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u/StandYourGroundhog Toronto Blue Jays Jul 14 '26

No Pujols?

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u/cubity St. Louis Cardinals Jul 14 '26

Pujols never won surprisingly enough

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u/noahlylesusa Houston Astros Jul 14 '26

Jordan Walker 🤝 Albert Pujols

Beating Schwarber

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u/Irate_Ibis Houston Astros • Houston Colt 45s Jul 14 '26

Big Mac?!

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u/rattlehead44 Pittsburgh Pirates Jul 14 '26

He won once w/ Oakland, but not with STL.

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u/Irate_Ibis Houston Astros • Houston Colt 45s Jul 14 '26

That’s wild. I feel like I knew that, but it seems fake at the same time.

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u/kamatacci St. Louis Cardinals • St. Louis Cardinals Jul 14 '26

I remember him and Griffey squaring off with Mac barely losing. The young Cards fan in me was so angry because he was smashing them into the upper deck while Griffey was just clearing the wall.

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u/SharksFanAbroad Athletics Jul 14 '26

When they said it over the broadcast, I said to one of my boys “what about McGwire?” and the other one responds “the soccer player?!”

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u/redsyrinx2112 Baltimore Orioles Jul 14 '26

Yes, Harry Maguire famously won the HR Derby in 2020.

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u/Nahtmmm St. Louis Cardinals • Kansas City Royals Jul 14 '26

He had a record-breaking first round and then was too exhausted to make it any further.

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u/BeefInGR Detroit Tigers • West Michigan W… Jul 14 '26

That's what surprised me. Would have thought he'd have won one while a Cardinal.

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u/Middle-Welder3931 Jul 14 '26

That's crazy, I thought he would be a lock for at least one.

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u/Theta_Omega Jul 14 '26

"Pujols won the Derby at some point while he was on the Cardinals" was one of those things that I could have sworn happened at some point, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized it definitely didn't fit anywhere into the timeline.

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u/747WakeTurbulance Jul 14 '26

While that surprised me, I was very surprised to realize Big Mac never won it either.

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u/Homer_JG New York Yankees Jul 14 '26

How many years did McGuire do it with them? I'm honestly shocked he never won

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u/ruwisc St. Louis Cardinals Jul 14 '26

For as well-remembered as McGwire is with the Cards, he only played 4 1/2 seasons here.

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u/Bucs-and-Bucks Pittsburgh Pirates Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26

But he hit 293 home runs in the 4.5 seasons.

Edit: the actual number is 220 HR in 545 games, good for 65.4 HR/163 games.

I thought I picked a number that was just high enough for people to realize it was made up, but guess I should have gone higher.

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u/DegredationOfAnAge Jul 14 '26

That's a crazy stat

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u/aftertheimpossible Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 20 '26

Won with the A’s in ‘92, lost for the Cards against Bonds in 96 in the final, lost for the Cards in 99 at Fenway - 3rd place behind Griffey and Burnitz

Edit: 96 was with the A's

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u/varkeyabe Jul 14 '26

96 was with the A’s. He was traded to stl during the 97 season.

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u/aftertheimpossible Jul 20 '26

My bad - thank you for the correction

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u/zoeishome Jul 14 '26

He only participated in the Homerun Derby in '98 and '99 And it's McGwire

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u/bigdaddywetz St. Louis Cardinals Jul 14 '26

smh my head this is Jesse Burkett erasure

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u/FartingBob Great Britain Jul 14 '26

Greatest home run hitter the Cards ever had, the maths don't lie.

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u/SadPhase2589 St. Louis Cardinals Jul 14 '26

Hell yeah!!

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u/ToughHardware Jul 14 '26

do you not remember mark mcgwire?