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:
| team | w | l |
| Athletics | 13 | 13 |
| Red Sox | 11 | 7 |
| Angels | 6 | 4 |
| Indians | 4 | 6 |
| Rangers | 4 | 6 |
| Blue Jays | 3 | 3 |
| Reds | 2 | 0 |
| Yankees | 1 | 1 |
| Tigers | 1 | 2 |
| 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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For you Dodger fans out there who fear that new GM Ned Colletti does not adhere to sabermetric principles, I advise you to think again.
There has been no organization in baseball history that believes more strongly in the sabermetric principle of TINSTAAPP than the Giants of recent vintage.
Dodger fans can now expect that every single pitching prospect they have will be traded for some sort of average major-league talent. Every. Single. One.
That sounds worse than it actually is. Sure, every once in a while you'll give up a Joe Nathan, or a Francisco Liriano--a pitching prospect that actually turns into a good pitcher. But more often than not, you'll be getting a legitimate big leaguer in exchange for some kid who won't ever get more than a cup of coffee. Wouldn't you rather have three years of Livan Hernandez than six years of Jason Grilli and Nate Bump?
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And if you're an A's fan...shhhhh...keep a low profile...Chad Billingsley could be in an Oakland uniform any day now...
Hey Ken, Matt Cain was pretty well guarded from being traded. But I dread his first setback...cos what Sabes/Colletti lacked was patience with their pitching prospects in such situations, from recent memory.
Also, you're being sarcastic with your 4th paragraph, right? That Liriano/Nathan trade was worse than catastrophic in its ramifications, and I'm not sure Sabes/Colletti did anything that would come close to balancing out the scales of (my) opinion in their favour.
Which is probably why Cain hasn't been traded yet. (And probably why Billingsley won't be traded either, but I can hope...)
The Dodgers would never get a Barton-type for a Jackson-type. A Witasick would be more like it.
It seems to imply that the Clemenses and the Madduxes can't be distilled from the hoardes of also-rans, and that statistically, you can't tell them apart at first. That wiki-entry Ken posted shows the postitives, but how many negatives? Bunches of wholes in that wiki-entry... Bunches...
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