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2025 MLB Home Run Derby: Twins' Byron Buxton joins James Wood, Cal Raleigh, Ronald Acuña Jr.
Minnesota Twins star Byron Buxton, a Georgia native, will partake in the 2025 Home Run Derby. Major League Baseball made the announcement on Monday, a week before the Derby is slated to be held at Truist Park, the regular-season home of the Atlanta Braves.
Twins center fielder Byron Buxton will add Home Run Derby to his All-Star duties
And this time, after consulting with teammates, family and friends, the Twins center fielder is going as a Monday night Home Run Derby participant next week, too. The last, and first, time Buxton played in the All-Star Game was 2022 in Los Angeles, when he homered in an American League victory at Dodger Stadium.
Twins’ Byron Buxton enters Home Run Derby field: “Once in a lifetime thing”
Buxton announced his plans to compete in next Monday’s Home Run Derby on his Instagram account a day after he was named the Twins’ lone representative in the All-Star Game. It will be his second Midsummer Classic but the first time he’s participated in the derby.
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