Just how weak is this year’s Home Run Derby field?

This year’s MLB Home Run Derby, set for Monday night at Nationals Park, will feature an unusual lineup. None of the top five players on the home run leaderboard will be there. Neither will any past champions. And, for some reason, there are two Chicago Cubs and only one American Leaguer.

That doesn’t mean this year’s derby is destined to be a dud, but it doesn’t look like the best lineup MLB could have come up with. To quantify that, we came up with four categories in which to grade the players: home runs, exit velocity, launch angle and distance. A better derby participant will hit more home runs harder, higher and farther.

Here’s this year’s lineup and a visualization of their home runs, plus their average angle, speed and distance:

On paper, Nationals star Bryce Harper looks like the most promising slugger in Monday’s contest. He also has the advantage of being the only player who has been in the derby before.

So who should be in the Home Run Derby? Unfortunately, many of the best candidates declined to participate. Past winners Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton passed this year, as did MLB homer co-leaders J.D. Martinez and José Ramírez.

There are less obvious players who also could put on a show. The Rangers’ Nomar Mazara (15 homers) has an exit velocity on par with Judge’s — and his average home run travels 20 feet farther. And Mazara’s teammate Joey Gallo has earned a reputation for hitting the ball a mile, but he won’t be in this year’s derby, either.

A few dark horse sluggers would have made the show more interesting: Japanese two-way star Shohei Ohtani has only hit seven home runs this year, but it’s about time a pitcher makes the derby. And Chicago White Sox outfielder Daniel Palka has hit some monster bombs in his rookie season.

So, once again, MLB won’t give us a pitcher in the Home Run Derby, and a lot of other interesting names will miss out, too. There’s always next year.