Here are this year’s Home Run Derby participants

This year’s T-Mobile Home Run Derby will take place at Globe Life Field on July 15 (8 p.m. ET, ESPN), and the first player to announce he will be participating in the annual tournament is Orioles shortstop Gunnar Henderson. Henderson, who trails only Aaron Judge for most homers in MLB this season, made the announcement while mic’d up during Baltimore’s Sunday Night Baseball contest against the Rangers.

We’ll be keeping track of which sluggers throw their hat — or their bat — into the ring as we near the Derby.

Longest HR of 2024: 430 feet, June 10 vs. Rays
Hardest-hit HR of 2024: 112.3 mph, April 29 vs. Yankees

Henderson belted 28 home runs in his 2023 AL Rookie of the Year campaign, and he’s nearly equaled that number in the first half of the ’24 season. He’ll follow teammate Adley Rutschman and make his Derby debut after Rutschman made his first Derby appearance in Seattle last year.

Longest HR of 2024: 427 feet, June 30 vs. Marlins
Hardest-hit HR of 2024: 106.8 mph, June 30 vs. Marlins

Though he’s never been a prolific home run hitter — his career high in a season is 20 — he definitely has pop. Four of his 11 homers this season have traveled 415 or more feet and nine of the 11 have been hit with an exit velocity of 101.9 mph or better. Bohm has been a doubles machine so far in 2024, but now he’ll attempt to up his game just for the fun of it.