It’s difficult for baseball players to miss roughly the first two months of the season and still make the MLB All-Star team. On Friday, Acuña told MLB reporter Daniel Álvarez-Montes that he would participate in other All-Star Game festivities too, if invited, including the 2025 Home Run Derby. “Ronald Acuña Jr. told us in El Extrabase that he’ll participate in the Home Run Derby in Atlanta if he gets invited,” Álvarez-Montes wrote on X.