Seattle Mariners All-Star Cal Raleigh won the 2025 Home Run Derby at Truist Field by defeating Junior Caminero of the Tampa Bay Rays in the championship round.

In some sense it was an expected outcome considering Raleigh’s historic first half of the season that included leading the Majors with 38 home runs. Raleigh’s total was 14 more than the next-closest Home Run Derby participant.

Defending champion Teoscar Hernández, who became the first player in Los Angeles Dodgers franchise history to win a Home Run Derby, passed on the opportunity to repeat this year due to health.

The 2025 Derby marked a second consecutive year with rules that among other factors included eliminating a bracket format for the opening round. Instead, all eight hitters took their swings for up to three minutes or maximum of 40 pitches.

The top-four highest scores advanced to the semifinals and at that point the Home Run Derby bracket format returned with seeding.

The first round and semifinals both were only three minutes long or 40 pitches. The final round was two minutes or 27 pitches.

The 2025 Home Run Derby field consisted of Byron Buxton, Junior Caminero, Jazz Chisholm Jr., Oneil Cruz, Matt Olson, Cal Raleigh, Brent Rooker and James Wood.

Ronald Acuña Jr. was named the first official participant but he was replaced by Olson late last week.

2025 Home Run Derby tracker & results

First round

James Wood was first to hit, and he reached 16 home runs to open the event. One of those was a majestic 486-foot blast that had other participants and All-Stars in awe.

Brent Rooker got off to a blistering start by hitting eight home runs in his first nine swings. However, he cooled off and only narrowly edged Wood with 17 home runs to guarantee he wouldn’t have the lowest total from the first round.

Junior Caminero similarly put on an impressive display upon stepping into the batter’s box and exceeded both Wood and Rooker in his initial swings by reaching 18 homers. Fatigue may have then set in as Caminero’s total in the first round finished at 21.

Oneil Cruz produced the longest home run of the first round at 488 feet and then improved on that with a 513-foot blast. He slugged 21 total homers in the round to tie with Caminero. Five of Cruz’s homers in the first round traveled at least 475 feet.

Georgia native Byron Buxton overcame a slow start to hit 20 home runs.

Jazz Chisholm Jr., who doesn’t profile as a home run hitter, mustered just three.

Cal Raleigh hit eight home runs from the left side before using his timeout. He came out of the brief break batting right-handed and adding seven more homers. Raleigh then switched back to hitting left-handed during the bonus round and ran his final total to 17.

Raleigh advanced over Rooker despite being tied in total home runs because his longest traveled 470.61 feet. Rooker’s longest homer in the first round was 470.53 feet.

Hometown representative Matt Olson overcame a sluggish start to hit 15 homers before his bonus round. That left Olson needing just three more to advance, but he recorded three outs without adding a homer.

Semifinals

Junior Caminero, Oneil Cruz, Byron Buxton and Cal Raleigh advanced the semifinal round and were pitted in matchups based on the traditional Home Run Derby bracket format. Cruz (No. 1) earned the top seed and went head-to-head with Raleigh (No.4), and Caminero (No. 2) and Buxton (No. 3) competed.

Buxton was first to swing in the semifinals and again had empty swings for a prolonged stretch before finding some rhythm. He managed just seven home runs, which Caminero easily breezed past to put himself into the finals.

Caminero reached eight home runs without using his timeout or needing the bonus round.

Raleigh hit before Cruz, doing so left-handed, and connected on six home runs in a row. Raleigh finished with a formidable 19.

Cruz hit 10 before getting to the bonus round, but made four outs before managing to catch Raleigh’s total. Cruz finished with 13 home runs.

Home Run Derby championship round

Raleigh swung first and hit seven home runs before calling his timeout. He resumed to hit eight and then three more in the bonus round for a final total of 18 homers.

Caminero also hit seven homers before taking his timeout, though had seven more seconds compared to when Raleigh reached the same point. Caminero wound up going into the bonus round with 14 home runs and only managed to add one more.

Raleigh became the second player in Mariners franchise history to ever win the Home Run Derby, joining Ken Griffey Jr., who achieved the feat an MLB-record three times (1994, 1998, 1999).

Raleigh also is the first catcher to win the Home Run Derby.

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