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FanPost Friday: Write your stump speech for getting Daniel Vogelbach into the Home Run Derby

The MLB All-Star Game Home Run Derby underwent significant format changes in 2014 and 2015 that made for a more exciting and action-packed viewer experience, and also made it a bit more challenging for the participants by introducing time limits instead of outs. The rules also continue to change on how participants are selected. It used to be that only those voted into the All-Star Game could participant, but now any player can be invited and two non-All-Star invitees have already won the competition since the rule change (Yoenis Cespedes and Giancarlo Stanton, naturally).