Pittsburgh Pirates Center Fielder Vanil Cruise on Tuesday accepted an invitation to compete in Monday’s home run darby in Atlanta.
Cruise is the fifth player to be committed to the competition held a day before the all-star game. Others are Ronald Ekuna Junior of Atlanta Braves, Cal Rale of Seattle Meriners, James Wood of Washington National and Bayren Buildon of Minnesota Twins.
The 26-year-old cruise is known for having a powerful bat and regularly saves the most difficult-in-the-world homeers. There was a exhaust of 122.9 mph to run his house on 25 May against Milwauki Broovers and was the most difficult hit Homer in the 10 -year statecast era.
But Cruz has never hit more than 21 in a season and was in 2024. He is on track to set a new high this year and is 15 in 80 matches.
Cruz has 55 career homeers in 324 sports.
Cruise will be the first Pittsburgh player to participate in Derby since Josh Bell in 2019. The other pirates who became part of the event were Bobby Bonila (1990), Barry Bonds (1992), Jason Bay (2005), Andrew Mcchane (2012) and Pedro Alverez (2013).
Overall, Cruise is batting only .203 in this season, but 28 leads the National League in theft.
The players are two-time champions of New York Met’s champion PT Alonso, Philadelphia Philise’s Kail Schwarbar and 2024 runner-up Bobby Wit Junior to invite the eight-Khiladi region.
Los Angeles Dozers’ defending champion Tasker Hernandez recently turned down a place as an idea for injuries.
The event is also expected to leave the incident for the top power of Aaron Judge of New York Yankis and Shohei Ohtani of Dojers.
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