This year's MLB Home Run Derby champion is a Decatur product. Jordan Walker, who outlasted the field to win the derby, began his baseball journey in Decatur, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Walker came up through metro Atlanta baseball before turning into one of the game's most powerful young hitters, and a national showcase like the derby is a good moment for local fans to claim him. The long ball has always played well in this town, and watching a hometown kid win the sport's biggest power contest is the kind of story Decatur will happily take.
