Orioles slugger Trey Mancini’s reason for accepting an invitation to next month’s Home Run Derby is a simple and unassailable one.
After missing all of the 2020 season because of surgery to remove a malignant tumor from his colon and the ensuing chemotherapy treatment, he wants his return to play this year to show others fighting cancer that there’s hope on the other side.
“The biggest reason why I wanted to do it was to show people that there’s life after a cancer diagnosis and chemotherapy,” Mancini said Tuesday, shortly after announcing on social media his entrance to the All-Star event July 12 at Colorado’s Coors Field.