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 17 of the series (17 of 25). All scoring will take place Friday, July 28th through Thursday, August 3rd.
5000 Club
Nolan Ryan is the only MLB pitcher to be in the 5000 Club. On August 22, 1989, Ryan struck out Rickey Henderson, becoming the only pitcher to record 5,000 career strikeouts.
Ryan ended his 27 year MLB career in 1993 with 5,714 strikeouts.