PARTICIPATION IN SCORING ASPECT IS STRICTLY OPTIONAL SO FEEL FREE TO FIND THE CACHE AND WATCH ALL THE ACTION FROM THE GRANDSTAND.
GAME ON!
Welcome to the 2023 Home Run Derby! Every Saturday morning a new cache will be released. After it is published you will have roughly a week to find it and select a slugger to represent you in that week's edition of the home run derby. Select one player and include his name in your log. The number of home runs he hits the following week (starting the Friday after cache publication) is your score; don't worry, we will handle all the scoring.
The series will be cumulative points from April through September with a week off over the All Star break. The "catch" is every player must be unique, so FTF has choice of any player, second to find will have second pick and so on. The cache hiders will also be playing so the cache owner will select fifth each week. A new wrinkle in this year’s scoring system is participants are only allowed to a pick a player once during the season. In all subsequent weeks your pick must be different than any other player you had used in previous weeks.
This is week 15 of the series (15 of 25). All scoring will take place Friday July 14 through Thursday July 20.
Here are some of the best free agent buys in MLB history:
1999 Arizona Diamondbacks sign Randy Johnson
Result: Posted a 38 WAR over the next four years including four consecutive Cy Young Awards and one Word Series Championship.
1993 Atlanta Braves sign Greg Maddux
Result: Six all-star appearances, four consecutive Cy Young Awards, and one Word Series Championship.
1977 New York Yankees sign Reggie Jackson
Result: All-star all fives season with the club, two World Series Championships, MVP both times, including a record four home runs on four consecutive swings in the 1977 WS.