The 2008 season started with the Red Sox as champs. They were beaten by the A's, who were beaten back by Boston, who were then swept by Toronto, who lost to Oakland, who lost to Cleveland, and so on, until we reached our current champion.
The Heavyweight of the Year is the team that wins the most title bouts at the end of the season.
2008 Title Bout Records:
| Mets | 23 | 17 |
| Athletics | 13 | 13 |
| Red Sox | 11 | 7 |
| Cubs | 9 | 1 |
| Padres | 8 | 6 |
| Rockies | 7 | 14 |
| Angels | 6 | 4 |
| Indians | 6 | 11 |
| Brewers | 5 | 0 |
| Cardinals | 5 | 5 |
| Reds | 5 | 5 |
| Dodgers | 5 | 7 |
| Marlins | 4 | 3 |
| Rangers | 4 | 6 |
| Blue Jays | 3 | 3 |
| Nationals | 3 | 5 |
| Mariners | 2 | 1 |
| Yankees | 2 | 3 |
| Phillies | 2 | 5 |
| Tigers | 1 | 2 |
| Giants | 0 | 3 |
| Orioles | 0 | 3 |
2006 Heavyweight of the Year:
Oakland Athletics
2005 Heavyweight of the Year:
Oakland Athletics
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2008 Stats
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Of course, I write a whole article about how Joe Blanton has been unlucky this year, and then he goes right out and gets clobbered for reasons that had absolutely nothing to do with luck, and everything to do with throwing a bunch of hanging curveballs and leaving fastball after fastball over the middle of the plate. The hit-me-fastballs included, embarrasingly enough, one to Blanton's good friend and former teammate Dan Haren, a bases-loaded double. I'm sure Blanton will never live that one down.
Blanton just plain sucked last night. That still doesn't change my belief that he's been unlucky. Indeed, looking at BP's LUCK stat, which tracks the difference between expected W-L record and actual W-L record, even after last night's suckfest, Blanton remains the unluckiest pitcher in the majors:
| Name | W | L | xW | xL | LUCK |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joe Blanton | 3 | 10 | 5.6 | 6.2 | -6.39 |
| John Lannan | 4 | 8 | 5.8 | 3.5 | -6.31 |
| Aaron Harang | 3 | 9 | 5.5 | 5.3 | -6.28 |
| Jeremy Guthrie | 3 | 7 | 6.6 | 4.8 | -5.74 |
| Barry Zito | 2 | 11 | 3.3 | 6.7 | -5.60 |
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