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The 2009 BYB Preview: The Rest of the Majors
For the past three years now, I've told myself that I would get these previews out of the way before the first week of the season, so I wasn't trying to cram them in on Opening Day. Yet here we are. Ultimately, I blame Gary Sheffield. If the Tigers hadn't released him, it would've been a nice,...
Beyond The Box Score Nominated For Best Sports Blog Of 2008
Our humble blog has been nominated as one of the best sports blogs of 2008 by The 2008 Weblog Awards folks. Click on the badge below to go vote, if that's your sort of thing. (Update: you can vote once every 24 hours through January 13th.) Of all the finalists, I've heard of less than half and...
Miguel Cabrera: Tiger of the Year
As his Detroit Tigers slogged through a last-place season, Miguel Cabrera really became the only player worth watching. And for that effort, he was named Tiger of the Year by the Detroit chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America. Following a somewhat disappointing start to the 2008...
2008 SBN Baseball Awards: MVP
I honestly believe we, the writers of SBN, will prove to be correct when the real MVP award is announced: American League 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th Points Dustin Pedroia 5 3 4 2 1 - - 2 - - 155 Joe Mauer 2 3 2 2 2 1 1 1 - - 109 Grady...
Galarraga is Tigers Rookie of the Year
I can't imagine there was much argument over this, but the Detroit Sports Broadcasters Association named Armando Galarraga the Tigers Rookie of the Year. In a season where very few of Dave Dombrowski's off-season acquisitions worked out in the Tigers' favor, Galarraga turned out to be the team's...
Jair Jurrjens Named Rookie of the Month
A win last night, now this good news... and no bad news in between. This is truly a rare occurrence for the Braves of late. Here is the official snippit: Atlanta Braves pitcher Jair Jurrjens has been named the June recipient of the National League Rookie of the Month Award presented by...
Chipper Jones Named NL Player of the Week
In spite of the Braves' woes over the past week, our professional hitter Chipper Jones has been swinging such a hot bat it "finally" garnered him Player of the Week honors. Over the past week Jones led the N.L. with a .579 (11-19) batting average, a 1.105 slugging percentage and a .652 on-base...
The BYB 2008 Preview: The Rest of the Majors
With today being the traditional day-after-Opening-Day off-day in Detroit (What will we do with our afternoon?), I figured I'd post the second part of my belated season preview. Which teams will be the division and wild card winners? Who will get the shiny awards for their trophy cases? And who...
Let's Talk Hardware
Okay, so possibly no one cares except for me, but I thought I’d just throw the winners out for discussion if anyone was interested in talking about the much debated two ‘biggie’ awards. Cy Young (AL) - C.C. Sabathia The only real surprise to me—and it was a shocker—was Sabathia’s win over Josh...
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