No Home Run Derby? Mookie Betts Offers New Idea For MLB All-Star Week

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Mookie Betts is sick of the Home Run Derby. “Do something else, or take it out. Don’t even do it,” the Boston Red Sox right fielder recently said, according to WEEI.com’s Rob Bradford, when asked about Major League Baseball’s annual midsummer homer-hitting contest. “Anything you do too much, people are going to get tired of it,” he reportedly added. Betts already has made it clear he has no plans to compete in this year’s Home Run Derby, and he’s not alone. Betts’ teammate, J.D. Martinez, and New York Yankees boppers Giancarlo Stanton and Aaron Judge — the last two Derby winners — also have said they have no interest in participating. A lack of star power could be problematic for MLB as it relates

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