Sometimes baseball is predictable -- or at least the Home Run Derby portion of baseball.

Heading into the 2016 Derby, held on Monday at PETCO Park in San Diego, California, the expectation was that Giancarlo Stanton would have a big night. After all, Stanton has become synonymous with the kind of elite raw power and memorable moonshots that give these contests their juice and staying power.

Sure enough, Stanton delivered. Not only did he homer 61 times on the night -- thereby setting a new Derby record -- he dominated the distance leaderboards, blasting the contest's eight-longest homers:

Stanton earned his Derby victory -- the first by a Marlins player -- honestly. He blew past Robinson Cano in the first round, then dropped the top-seeded Mark Trumbo in the semifinals. In the finals, Stanton met the defending champion, Todd Frazier, whom proved to be no match. Indeed, Stanton won by seven, therefore becoming the first non-All-Star to win since Yoenis Cespedes in 2013.

As such, Stanton will have the next few days to recover from an impressive performance. Consider that a bad sign for the league's pitchers.

Here are six other things to know about the Derby.

1. Robinson Cano was a disappointment

One of two former Derby winners in the field (the other being Todd Frazier), Cano put on the least memorable performance of the night. Maybe he recognized a first-round loss was inevitable given who he was facing, but he finished with just seven home runs -- thus making him the only contestant who failed to crack double digits on the night. On the bright side, at least Cano had a good seat for the rest of the show?

2. Wil Myers was, too

The hometown favorite, Myers also bowed out in the first round. Unlike Cano, Myers did have a memorable moment -- albeit not a good one. His younger brother hit him in the side with a pitch. Myers laughed it off, but that bruise is going to have more staying power than he did in the Derby.

3. Mark Trumbo hit the previously unhittable scoreboard

The top overall seed entering the tournament, Trumbo edged out Corey Seager in round one to earn a semifinal spot against Stanton. In addition to hitting the longest non-Stanton home run of the night, Trumbo also did something that had never been done before: he smacked a ball off the PETCO Park scoreboard. While not as great as a Derby win, it does make for a satisfying consolation prize:

4. Giancarlo Stanton cost the Marlins money

The Marlins probably have mixed emotions right now. Stanton winning the Derby is good PR, and almost guarantees that he'll be included in next July's Derby -- which, coincidentally, will be held at Marlins Park. The downside? The club tied a ticket discount to the number of home runs Stanton hit. The Marlins probably expected something like 25-to-45 on the night -- not a record 61. Oh well -- Stanton and the rest of the Marlins deserve to play in front of a bigger crowd.

5. Todd Frazier lives for the Home Run Derby

The idea that a player can excel at an event as volatile as the Derby seems like a questionable claim. Still, how do you explain Frazier making a third consecutive finals appearance? Maybe that's only noteworthy because he's one of the few to earn and accept three consecutive Derby invitations, but we might have to investigate just why he's so good at these events if he pushes his streak to four in a row. Who knows. Maybe we'll see Stanton-Frazier Round II come next July.

6. The format works

This feels so right that it's hard to believe it's only in its second year. We had buzzer-beaters, we had time-out strategy, and -- best of all -- we didn't have a sense that the whole thing was dragged out to earn as much advertisement revenue as possible. The Derby is, well, fun again -- and that's the whole point. Now, about those pitchers. . . .

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Everyone's favorite to win the 2016 MLB Home Run Derby won in record fashion. Getty Images