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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To conclude our thoughts about the Man On Top (Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3), TangoTiger backed up my scouting report with some strong statistical evidence for Barry Zito's prowess against right-handed batters:
That's right, while Zito's career BABIP against LH is virtually exactly league average, he has a BABIP of 42 points less against RH! Zito has 3200 BIP against RH, meaning one standard deviation would be 8 points. His performance is FIVE standard deviations from the mean. That is about as significant as significant gets.
There's also some vigorous discussion of the articles going on here and over here, which might be quite illuminating if you can read Korean, which I can't.
As for the Man Underneath, I got nothin', except that he's currently serving as the punchline over at Humbug.
Kerry :-)
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