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 2026 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. One unique player for weekly through out the season.
This is week 7 of the series (7 of 25). All scoring will take place Friday May 8th -May 14th.
Born in Los Angeles in 1960, this right fielder played throughout the 1990s and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2007. He played his entire 20-year career for the San Diego Padres and was an All-Conference college player in both baseball and basketball. He was a 15-time All-Star, a five-time Gold Glove Award winner, a seven-time Silver Slugger Award winner, a winner of eight National League batting championships, and a winner of the Roberto Clemente Award for being the player who best exemplified the game of baseball, sportsmanship, community involvement, and individual contribution to his team. His parents moved the family from Los Angeles to Long Beach when he was nine years old, and his younger brother also played major league baseball. He played on the only two Padre teams (as of August 2024) to reach the World Series.