The 2015 MLB Home Run Derby will take place on Monday, July 13th, 2015 as part of the 2015 MLB All Star Weekend Festivities in Cincinnati, Ohio. But this year’s Derby will be different from those in years past.

Last month, the MLB announced that starting this year, the Derby will be a bracket competition in which each player will have 5 minutes to hit however many home runs they can. There will be eight participants, and each participant will be pitted against someone else and whoever hits more home runs during their five minutes advances to the next round. This process keeps repeating until a winner is crowned.

I’m excited to see how the new format plays out. I think it will definitely be more entertaining than the old format, where players keep trying to hit home runs until they make ten outs (or hit balls that aren’t home runs). Each year, the Home Run Derby seemed to get more and more boring. If a change like this wasn’t made, it might end up being like the NBA Skills Competition, a once great competition that’s dried up thanks to the same repetitive rituals done year after year. I think leagues like the NBA and the NHL should try what the MLB is doing and switch up some of the events in their All Star Skills Competitions. The NHL is rumored to be considering getting rid of its skills competition and making the whole All Star weekend a Stanley Cup Playoffs-like competition where eight teams compete against each other until a champion is crowned, just like the new Home Run Derby Format.

One player I would love to see in this year’s Derby is Cubs super-rookie Kris Bryant. He has been stellar all season, and it would represent the beginning of a new era of the Home Run Derby, where we start to see some of the newer, up and coming players compete. Another player I would love to see in the Derby is Tigers slugger Yoenis Cespedes, who won the last two Derby’s. Other players would be Bryce Harper, Mike Trout, Albert Pujols, Todd Frazier, J.D. Martinez, and Nelson Cruz.

Kudos to Major League Baseball and new commissioner Rob Manfred for trying something new. In a league which has a reputation of not welcoming change, it is refreshing to see them move in this direction.