MW Home Run Derby finalists Cal Raleigh and Junior Caminero just doubled their salaries. Here's how much the All-Star hitters are taking home.

By Weston Blasi

Seattle Mariners slugger Cal Raleigh won the 2025 MLB Home Run Derby, the first time a catcher has taken home the title

Seattle Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh just doubled his salary. Not bad for a night's work!

Raleigh, 28, commonly known by his nickname "The Big Dumper" after a teammate started making fun of his large posterior, won Monday's MLB All-Star Game Home Run Derby - and $1 million in prize money.

This million-dollar grand prize equals Raleigh's base salary for the 2025 season - although he'll make a grand-slam total of about $11 million in cash from the Mariners this season when adding in his contract bonuses, according to data from Spotrac.

Here's how the 2025 Home Run Derby prize pool breaks down: Each participant got $150,000 for participating. Then as far as the grand prizes: $1 million went to the first-place finisher and $750,000 for second place, and the player who hit the longest home run got $25,000.

Junior Caminero of the Tampa Bay Rays took home the second-place prize this year, and Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Oneil Cruz won the $25,000 longest-home-run prize after crushing one ball 513 feet. Caminero also nearly doubled his $764,100 salary with his Home Run Derby performance on Monday.

But the bonus money doesn't stop there. Raleigh could also parlay this success into future endorsement deals. For example, he could be given the moniker "Home Run Champ," a title that other players have used in TV ads in the past - like former Phillies All-Star Ryan Howard did with Subway sandwiches and Ken Griffey Jr. did with Nike $(NKE)$.

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So how does that prize money stack up to similar All-Star competitions in other sports? Every participant in the NBA's Slam Dunk Contest earns $105,000, while the 3-point contest winner nets $60,000, and the WNBA's 3-point shootout winner will get $62,575 in 2025.

One thing that made Monday's Home Run Derby even more special: Raleigh's dad, Todd, was the one throwing him the pitches. "It goes all the way back to him coming home, and me forcing him to throw me a ball and hit it in the backyard or in the house or something [we] probably shouldn't be doing," Cal Raleigh said.

Raleigh totaled 54 homers over three rounds Monday, and is the second Mariners player to take the derby title, after three-time winner Ken Griffey Jr.

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-Weston Blasi

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