We have no idea whether the #VoteMoose movement will get Mike Moustakas to the All-Star game, but he’ll represent the Kansas City Royals in the Home Run Derby at least.
The Home Run Derby is a silly, contrived, made-for-TV event that, directly or indirectly, caused much of America to flip their opinion about Chris Berman. It’s a nonsensical event—the league’s power hitters hitting batting-practice fastballs impossible distances, and something that seemed to alter Joc Pederson’s career path, truth be told—that has as much to do with actual baseball as a sunflower seed spitting distance contest.