This past Friday significant progress was made in talks between MLB, NPB (Japan’s professional league) and KBO (South Korea’s professional league) that are aiming to set up a World Cup tournament to be played in 2006. Currently the aim is for a 16-country tournament to be hosted by MLB and the MLBPA. The three parties […]

The Internet Baseball Writers Association (IBWA), of which many THT writers are proud members, announced its first annual awards today. In a moving ceremony, Barry Bonds, Vlad Guerrero, Johan Sanatana and Randy Johnson were proclaimed the best in their class. You can view the full slate at the all-baseball site.

Okay, does anyone else find it weird that the writers voted Manny Ramirez the Series MVP? Yes, he had some hits, but so did a lot of other Sox. Plus, he almost gave away Game One with an awful play in left field. I mean, what were they thinking? In fact, Jay Bennett names Manny […]

First of all, I’m writing this at 2 AM on Thursday morning, somewhere around 3 1/2 hours after the Red Sox won the World Series. Before the game, I was sure that if Boston won, I’d have tons to say about it. Maybe it’s the fact that it’s two in the morning, but I honestly […]

Congratulations to the Boston Red Sox and their fans on winning their first World Championship in 86 years. As a Yankees fan, having suffered a terrible humiliation at Boston’s hands on the way to losing the ALCS, there is a part of me that didn’t want this to happen, but I knew it was time. […]

According to Jay Bennett’s Player Game Percentage, Keith Foulke is the leader for World Series MVP after three games, primarily based on his critical save of Game One. The MVP of last night’s game was Manny Ramirez, but he has so many negative points from his first-game fielding adventures that he’s still the Least Valuable […]

It’s a little past midnight Central Time, and I just got back to my hotel from Busch Stadium, where the Red Sox beat the Cardinals 4-1 to take a 3-0 Series lead. The Sox got Mike Webber and I tickets, which were way up in the nosebleeds (Section 378, at the very top row). That’s […]

According to Jay Bennett’s Player Game Percentage, Curt Schilling was the MVP of Game Two, and it wasn’t even close. He corralled 18.2 points in yesterday’s game, compared to runner-up Jason Varitek, with 8.8 points. Varitek’s first-inning triple was the play of the game. Mark Bellhorn (21.0) remains MVP of the Series so far, but […]

Congratulations to the Seibu Lions, who won the Japan Series this morning with a 7-2 win over the Chunichi Dragons in Game 7. Takashi Ishii won his second game of the series with six shutout innings; he didn’t give up an earned run in either game he pitched. A five-run third – all the runs […]

You may be interested in following Jay Bennett’s Player Game Percentage coverage of the World Series. Jay is one of the key figures in the development of “Win Expectancy,” which we used to cover some of the key games of the year. PGP is Jay’s take on WE, and he will post results of his […]