Most random former Yankees to ever flame out of the Home Run Derby

Typically, when the New York Yankees are included in the Home Run Derby showcase prior to the All-Star Game, MLB chooses the best of the very best. Aaron Judge's coming out party in 2017 comes to mind (never mind the resulting shoulder injury - grand opening, grand closing). So do Jason Giambi's titanic blasts in Milwaukee in 2002.

Most of the familiar former Yankees who've struggled in the Derby have done so while wearing a different primary uniform. Still, every year, without fail, a titanic power bat comes up surprisingly empty on the big stage. This happens less often now than it did back in the day when MLB would choose, say, Tom Brunansky and send him to the wolves, but still - the league occasionally straight-up gets it wrong.

Perhaps the worst Yankees Derby flameout of all time was perpetrated by someone we certainly wouldn't consider random. Robinson Cano's attempt to defend his 2011 title the next summer in Kansas City went about as poorly as it possibly could've.

Named "Team Captain" by MLB, Cano was forced by the league to go through a sham process of responsibility where the onus for Derby roster-building supposedly fell on his shoulders. "Cano" (more likely "Everyone at MLB Who Wanted to Ensure a Top-Tier Product) didn't select hometown Kansas City Royals star Billy Butler for the event, likely because he'd hit only 19 home runs the year prior (though, to be fair, he was in the midst of a 29-dinger season in 2012).

Throwing logic out the window, the Kansas City crowd was ruthless towards Cano, blaming the snub entirely on a hated Yankee because it was convenient. He hit zero home runs under duress, popping his final out foul as the heckling reached a fever pitch. Fugly.

Former New York Yankees players who bombed out of Home Run Derby history

Jack Clark, 1985: Clark, still with the WhiteyBall Cardinals before joining the Yankees in 1988, hit 22 regular-season homers in '85. Unfortunately, he could only muster two - and the occasional wall ball - in the very first Home Run Derby at the Metrodome in Minnesota.

Jesse Barfield, 1986: Wearing a Jays uniform, future Yankee Jesse Barfield socked just two homers at the Astrodome - and he actually finished second of three AL competitors, edging out Jose Canseco of the A's. Canseco, the biggest man alive, sucked at this?

Darryl Strawberry/Jose Canseco, 1990: Eventually, they'd both attempt to revive their careers with the Yankees, to varying degrees of success. In 1990, both Strawberry and Canseco hit zero balls out of Wrigley Field in an iconically terrible Derby. Mark McGwire led the AL with ... ONE. What the hell happened here? They forget to bring bats? They schedule this derby for blustery January 22?

Danny Tartabull, 1991: Before Tartabull became famous for eating a Snickers bar with a fork and knife and being driven miles off his intended route by George Costanza, he cut his teeth as a slugger in Kansas City, mashing 31 home runs in his first and only All-Star season in '91. He hit just two homers in the Sky Dome Derby, and would be a Yankee the following offseason, signed in free agency (and eventually traded for Ruben Sierra in 1995).

David Justice, 1993: Justice was seven years away from becoming a Yankee when he bopped just two homers at Camden Yards, overshadowed by Ken Griffey Jr. turning the warehouse into his personal canvas.

Richie Sexson, 2003: The worst Yankee? The worst Yankee. Sexson, an All-Star in '02 and '03 with the Brewers, played the final 22 games of his career with a freefalling 2008 Yankees club, hitting .250 and socking a single home run. He hit one bomb at U.S. Cellular Field, edging out current Yankee manager Aaron Boone's brother Bret, who nailed zero.

Mark Teixeira, 2005: Before he was sending Tex Messages to the right field bleachers, he was being left on read by the crowd at Comerica Park in '05; Teixeira the Ranger hit two homers, fewer than Hee-seop Choi.

Nick Swisher, 2010: Swisher actually was a Yankee when he competed in the Derby, proving once and for all that you can't smile baseballs out of the stadium. Swish did the worst thing you can in Anaheim in '10: lost a title to David Ortiz. He hit four homers and didn't make it out of the first round, edging out fellow random Yankee Vernon Wells (2).

Josh Donaldson, 2014: In his first go-round in the Derby at Target Field, Donaldson hit three homers, but lost a first-round swing-off to Yoenis Cespedes ... who went on to finish with 28 as the champion. The next year, Donaldson fared far better in Cincinnati, losing to Todd Frazier 10-9 in the semis, knocked off by the eventual champ two years running. And then, his career ended immediately! He never did anything again. Don't look that up.