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About John Barten

John Barten is a broadcast engineer from Indianapolis. Despite being originally from central Illinois, he's a Kansas City Royals fan. He writes the weekly THT Awards feature. Please send suggestions, comments, corrections, and input to his email address.


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John Barten's Articles

2009

THT Awards season finale, part two

October 20, 2009
In the interests of preserving the surprise, I won't tell you which Minnesota catcher and which St Louis first baseman are my choices for MVP.

THT Awards season finale, part one

October 13, 2009
Part one of two deals with pitchers. Good ones, bad ones, lucky ones, unlucky ones.

THT Awards

October 06, 2009
A pair of Minnesota hitters were key factors keeping their team alive.

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September 29, 2009
A pair of young first baseman playing for teams that are hopelessly out of it are blowing up.

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September 22, 2009
As if the world needed more preaching about Zack Greinke's Cy Young case.

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September 08, 2009
Greinkeian: adjective describing poor run support. Used in a sentence: The amount of help Bobby got from his teammates was practically greinkeian.

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September 01, 2009
An ode to outfielders who rub fans and the media the wrong way and to the best pitcher in the AL

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August 25, 2009
No, draft picks are not overpaid.

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August 18, 2009
Sean O'Sullivan and Roy Oswalt have rough weeks. Lucky, but rough.

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August 11, 2009
Randy Wolf and Joe Saunders highlight our attempt to catch up with the season's pitching award leaders.

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August 04, 2009
This just in: Kendry Morales is good. Mike Jacobs is not.

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July 28, 2009
Rested and ready to dive headlong into the second half, we look at Mr. Perfection and a new Hall of Famer who decided it was time to tell young kids that it's important to remember to ground out to the second baseman.

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July 15, 2009
Unlucky starters are featured as we catch up with the pitching awards.

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July 07, 2009
Joe Mauer gets his due.

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June 30, 2009
Cliff Lee's weird season keeps rolling while some Single-A guys you've never heard of had the wildest day you'll ever hear about.

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June 23, 2009
The Royals may have had their worst week ever, but Luis Valbuena may have had his best.

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June 16, 2009
The Tigers and the White Sox bullpens spent an entire series trying to give each other games.

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June 09, 2009
We survey the season leaders in the pitching categories this week.

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June 02, 2009
The strikeouts are flying for a fearsome foursome of fledgling batters.

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May 19, 2009
Josh Fields needs to get it in gear while Raul Ibanez is out of his mind.

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May 12, 2009
Zack Greinke: Good, unlucky

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May 05, 2009
The column that would be too clever by half if it were four times as clever as it is.

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April 28, 2009
It's about time somebody out there had the courage to say that Albert Pujols and Zack Greinke are good at their jobs. I think I'm just the man for the job.

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April 21, 2009
Documenting the atrocities since 2007.

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April 11, 2009
A Royals fan gets to gloat about his team's pitching.

2009 THT Awards Primer

April 04, 2009
It's been a long, long offseason.

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