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- Updated: May 19, 2016
CHICAGO — The Home Run Derby during All-Star Game presented by MasterCard festivities in San Diego still sits two months removed, but White Sox third baseman Todd Frazier would be lying if he didn’t admit to already thinking about the event.
“Every day of the week,” a smiling Frazier told MLB.com on Thursday.
Well, maybe not every day of the week, not with the White Sox looking like a postseason team through the first seven weeks of the season. And Frazier isn’t thinking so much about defending his title, which he won in dramatic fashion representing the Reds in front of the Cincinnati home crowd after finishing second to Yoenis Cespedes the previous year.
Frazier simply loves the thrill of this particular competition.
“I was one of those guys, if I wasn’t playing baseball, we’d be down the street at the high school playing Yankee/Pirate,” Frazier said. “You take half the field and you can’t hit it over there. Other people have a different name. We called it Yankee/Pirate, don’t ask me why.
“You try to hit laser beams. I’ve been doing it my whole life. Little League, we …
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