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
Ken: catfish AT zombia d.o.t. com
Ryan: rarmbrust AT gmail d.o.t. com
Philip: kingchimp AT alamedanet d.o.t net
2008 Stats
Baseball Toaster runs on some experimental software called Fairpole. It's still under development.
For more information, please visit the Fairpole blog, or read the FAQ.
According to Ken Rosenthal, the A's are about to sign Esteban Loaiza to a 3-year, $21 million deal.
This deal makes very little sense to me in isolation. It has to be part of some bigger plan.
I gotta run--I'll be back at 3pm PT and add some more comments.
Update #1: Dave Cameron at USS Mariner thinks the A's made a good deal.
Update #2: Blez likes it, Zachary doesn't (much).
Back again later. Busy day for me, sorry...
While searching for bargain-bin buys-a
A shiny thing caught Billy's eyes-a
But when he got home
He let out a moan:
"My God! I just bought a Loaiza!"
Sensible to other teams
Beane pursues pipe dreams.
That said, my carefully thought out and highly reticulated curvilinear analysis of the multivariate emoluments coursing through this deal is: Gee, $21 million seems like a heck of a lot of money for three years of Esteban Loiaza.
Good luck. Nats fans will miss Loaiza.
To comment, please log in.
Not a member? Register!