Major League Baseball's eight participants for Monday's Home Run Derby at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia have been announced.
Philadelphia Phillies teammates Bryce Harper and Kyle Schwarber are among the competitors for this year's event. Chicago White Sox rookie Munetaka Murakami was the final participant to be revealed.
| Player | Team | 2026 HRs |
|---|---|---|
| Kyle Schwarber | Phillies | 32 |
| Ben Rice | Yankees | 28 |
| Junior Caminero | Rays | 27 |
| Jordan Walker | Cardinals | 22 |
| Bryce Harper | Phillies | 20 |
| Munetaka Murakami | White Sox | 20 |
| Willson Contreras | Red Sox | 20 |
| Jac Caglianone | Royals | 14 |
(Home run totals as of Thursday)
The 2026 competition features a new format in which participants will receive a predetermined number of swings per round instead of an allotted amount of time. Players will get 20 swings in Round 1, 15 in Round, 2, and 15 in the final round. If a home run is hit on a participant's final swing of the round, they can keep swinging until they don't hit one out.
There will be no bonus round and no bracket for the first round. The top four players in Round 1 will advance and be seeded based on their first-round totals and face-off head-to-head (No. 1 versus No. 4, No. 2 versus No. 3). Ties in the first round will be determined by the longest home run hit.
Harper is the only participant in the field to have won the Home Run Derby previously, doing so in 2018. Seattle Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh won last year's competition at Truist Park in Atlanta.
Monday's contest will be broadcast live on Netflix at 8 p.m. ET.
