Cal Raleigh made history as the first catcher to win the T-Mobile Home Run Derby, defeating 22-year-old Junior Caminero in the finals on Monday night. With his father pitching and his brother behind the plate, the man they call Big Dumper took home the title to follow up a torrid first half, during which he hit 38 home runs before the All-Star break.
Raleigh very nearly didn't make it out of the first round, finishing tied for fourth with Brent Rooker with 17 homers, but his longest dinger of the round surpassed Rooker's by about an inch -- 470.62 feet compared to Rooker's 470.54 -- allowing him to take the tiebreaker and move on.
Oneil Cruz also put on a show for the Atlanta crowd, launching a 513-foot blast that was tied for the longest non-Coors Field home run in Derby history, though the Pirates slugger was eliminated in the semifinals.
Check out our round-by-round highlights and analysis below.
Finals
Cal Raleigh defeats Junior Caminero
Caminero finals total: 15
At 22 years and nine days old, Caminero came dangerously close to becoming the youngest player to ever win the Home Run Derby. Caminero had the unfortunate task of running into the buzzsaw that Raleigh has been in 2025, however. Nonetheless, it was quite the performance for Caminero, who showed why he’s one of the brightest young power hitters in baseball and put on a show with 44 home runs that traveled an average distance of 435 feet.
LONGEST HR: 469 feet
HARDEST HR: 111 mph
AVG. HR DISTANCE: 427 feet
AVG. HR EXIT VELO: 106.7 mph
Raleigh finals total: 18
Raleigh put on quite the show in the finals, ending regulation with a last-second homer to right-center to reach 15 before hitting three more in the bonus round. At one point, the catcher homered on six straight pitches -- three before his timeout and three after it. Again batting solely left-handed, Raleigh increased his Home Run Derby total to 54 homers.
LONGEST HR: 464 feet
HARDEST HR: 110 mph
AVG. HR DISTANCE: 429 feet
AVG. HR EXIT VELO: 105.5 mph
Semifinals
Cal Raleigh defeats Oneil Cruz
Cruz semifinal total: 13
Cruz didn’t advance to the finals, but he still put on one of the most electrifying Derby performances we’ve ever seen. After hitting a 513-foot homer in the first round, Cruz demolished his 11th home run at a whopping 498 feet, the second-longest home run in this Derby. In total, Cruz hit 34 home runs across two rounds, which averaged 448 feet with a 111.4 mph exit velocity. Eighteen of Cruz’s home runs traveled at least 450 feet.
LONGEST HR: 498 feet
HARDEST HR: 119 mph
AVG. HR DISTANCE: 449 feet
AVG. HR EXIT VELO: 112 mph
Raleigh semifinal total: 19
In an incredible semifinal performance, Raleigh demonstrated why he hit the second-most homers (38) by any player before the All-Star break in MLB history. Unlike Round 1, he batted left-handed the entire time rather than switch-hitting, and it paid off: Raleigh homered on four of his first five swings for a stellar start to his round. He stayed hot after his timeout, totaling 16 homers in regulation and adding three more in his bonus round.
LONGEST HR: 465 feet
HARDEST HR: 109 mph
AVG. HR DISTANCE: 430 feet
AVG. HR EXIT VELO: 104.8 mph
Junior Caminero defeats Byron Buxton
Caminero semifinal total: 8
After crushing 21 homers in the first round, Caminero needed less than a minute in the semifinals to advance to the finals after hitting eight home runs and passing Buxton’s total. Caminero joined Randy Arozarena -- who lost in the finals in the 2023 Derby against Vladimir Guerrero Jr. in Seattle -- as the only Rays hitters to make it to the Home Run Derby finals.
LONGEST HR: 460 feet
HARDEST HR: 113 mph
AVG. HR DISTANCE: 433 feet
AVG. HR EXIT VELO: 107.6 mph
Buxton semifinal total: 7
Buxton struggled in the semis after slugging 20 homers in Round 1 to advance. He hit just one homer in his first 10 swings before picking up the pace to finish with six in regulation and adding another during his bonus round. His longest homer was 456 feet, longer than all but one of his first-round homers (466 feet).
LONGEST HR: 456 feet
HARDEST HR: 108 mph
AVG. HR DISTANCE: 416 feet
AVG. HR EXIT VELO: 105.7 mph
Round 1
Matt Olson -- eliminated
HR total: 15
Born in Atlanta and having manned first base for the Braves since 2022, Olson had the chance to play hometown hero. The only contestant with previous Derby experience -- he hit 23 home runs in the first round of the ‘21 Derby in Colorado but was eliminated -- Olson struggled out of the gate by going homerless on his first nine swings. Olson turned it around, hitting all 15 home runs after his first one at 2:02, but he finished just short of moving on.
LONGEST HR: 460 feet
HARDEST HR: 109 mph
AVG. HR DISTANCE: 415 feet
AVG. HR EXIT VELO: 105 mph
Cal Raleigh
HR total: 17
Raleigh became the second player to switch sides of the plate in the Home Run Derby (joining Orioles catcher Adley Rutschman in 2023), and the Mariners backstop did it TWICE! MLB’s home run leader started his round as a left-handed batter, hitting eight homers before switching to the other side of the plate after his timeout. He hit seven homers right-handed, then switched back to the left side for his bonus round and hit two more to tie Brent Rooker at 17. By virtue of his longest homer going 470.62 feet compared to Rooker's 470.54 feet, Raleigh moved on.
LONGEST HR: 471 feet
HARDEST HR: 112 mph
AVG. HR DISTANCE: 430 feet
AVG. HR EXIT VELO: 106.7 mph
Jazz Chisholm Jr. -- Eliminated
HR total: 3
No stranger to the Home Run Derby -- he has participated in the Don't Blink Home Run Derby in previous offseasons in the Bahamas, where he calls home -- Chisholm struggled his first time in the MLB version. He homered just once in his first 15 swings before he took a timeout. Chisholm’s three home runs were the fewest in the first round since the Derby format changed from an “outs” format to a timer in 2015.
LONGEST HR: 453 feet
HARDEST HR: 107 mph
AVG. HR DISTANCE: 421 feet
AVG. HR EXIT VELO: 105.7 mph
Byron Buxton
HR total: 20
Talk about some majestic dingers. Nearly every one of Buxton’s 20 blasts was a skyscraper arcing high into the Atlanta night as the Twins star closed his first round strong. He hit seven homers in the final minute, then crushed four homers before he even made an out in his bonus round. Fresh off hitting for the cycle on Saturday, Buxton maxed out at 466 feet on his homers.
LONGEST HR: 466 feet
HARDEST HR: 112 mph
AVG. HR DISTANCE: 427 feet
AVG. HR EXIT VELO: 106.3 mph
Oneil Cruz
HR total: 21
Nobody in baseball hits the ball harder than Cruz, so it was no surprise that he put on a show in his first Home Run Derby. Among his 21 impressive homers, one of them stood alone: a 513-foot shot that left Cruz’s bat at a scalding 118 mph. That was tied with Aaron Judge (2017 in Miami) for the fourth-longest Home Run Derby homer since Statcast began tracking in 2016. It's also tied for the longest home run that wasn’t hit at Coors Field in the 2021 Derby.
LONGEST HR: 513 feet
HARDEST HR: 118 mph
AVG. HR DISTANCE: 447 feet
AVG. HR EXIT VELO: 111 mph
Junior Caminero
HR total: 21
Caminero made it look easy in the opening round of his first Derby, swatting 21 homers -- all but one of which was hit to left or left-center field -- and getting impressive loft on his swing. The Rays third baseman showed why he has the second-highest bat speed in the Major Leagues, blasting homers as far as 474 feet (twice) to take the lead over Brent Rooker and James Wood. Plus, he did it all while swinging a bat with his own likeness on it!
LONGEST HR: 475 feet
HARDEST HR: 117 mph
AVG. HR DISTANCE: 442 feet
AVG. HR EXIT VELO: 107.5 mph
Brent Rooker -- Eliminated
HR total: 17
Rooker started on an absolute heater, homering on his first three swings and eight out of his first nine. After hitting his eighth home run 45 seconds into the round, however, Rooker slowed down, only homering six more times before he got going again in the bonus round. Once there, Rooker smashed three more home runs, pushing his total to 17. When Rooker was hot, he was crushing home runs to the pull side, hitting six homers at least 440 feet.
LONGEST HR: 471 feet
HARDEST HR: 112 mph
AVG. HR DISTANCE: 428 feet
AVG. HR EXIT VELO: 106.1 mph
James Wood -- Eliminated
HR total: 16
It took the young Nationals slugger a little while to heat up, but Wood rounded into fine form in his first Derby performance. He homered on six of his final eight swings and added two more homers in his bonus round to reach 16 in all. Wood’s second homer traveled 486 feet, the longest HR in a Home Run Derby (not counting Coors Field in 2021) since Vladimir Guerrero Jr.’s 488-foot shot in the 2019 Derby.
LONGEST HR: 486 feet
HARDEST HR: 112 mph
AVG. HR DISTANCE: 435 feet
AVG. HR EXIT VELO: 106 mph