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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. Follow him on Twitter at JohnMBarten


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2011

Offseason Decisions: Should the Royals trade Soria?

December 06, 2011
The Royals have a very good closer with a favorable contract at a time when everybody is handing closers crazy contracts. Should they leverage that into something they need?

THT Awards season finale volume 2

October 11, 2011
No armchair shrinks allowed.

THT Awards season finale volume 1

October 04, 2011
Pitching awards and franchise milestone wins and losses

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September 27, 2011
Oh, how the mighty right fielders have fallen.

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September 20, 2011
A hot week with the bats gives the Giants a lot of mentions in the awards.

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September 06, 2011
Juan Rivera posts possibly the most amazing Carter Award entry ever. Also note the one-week spike in hold/loss combos.

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August 30, 2011
Delmon Young, being Delmon Young.

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August 23, 2011
A couple of catchers had big weeks.

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August 16, 2011
The Red Sox and Twins exchange the lead for three straight games while we take a moment to remember the ghosts of Papis past.

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August 09, 2011
Because you simply must use your best reliever to retire the Nationals' 8-9-1 hitters.

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August 02, 2011
Unless you're a die-hard fan of the PCL, you might not have heard much about this week's NL MVP.

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July 26, 2011
Zach Duke bravely protects the lead. Also, admitting cluelessness pertaining to the Talented Mr. Ellsbury.

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July 19, 2011
Felix Hernandez and Zack Greinke are unlucky? Lance Berkman is good? It's like 2008 all over again!

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July 12, 2011
Adam Dunn's annus horribilis marches on.

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July 05, 2011
The strange and very rare three-inning save makes an appearance.

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June 28, 2011
The awards return with a pair of infielders who had great weeks. Both infielders were drafted as shortstops by Canadian teams, but have not been either shortstops or members of those organizations for a long time.

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June 14, 2011
Prince Fielder is hot. Brad Hawpe is not.

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June 07, 2011
Albert Pujols is suddenly awesome again.

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May 31, 2011
Introducing Yoshinori Tateyama. Also, east coast bias from a Midwesterner!

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May 24, 2011
I'm not sure if anybody has noticed, but teams aren't scoring as many runs. Also, the Royals do strange things from time to time. You might call this the breaking news edition of the awards.

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May 17, 2011
Kicking Javier Vazquez when he's down.

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May 10, 2011
Jose Bautista is a bad, bad man.

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May 03, 2011
The return of the Puma and Zorilla.

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April 26, 2011
In a week punctuated by rainouts, weird and/or misleading stats still happen and are still documented in the awards.

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April 20, 2011
You will never guess which NL shortstop is hitting really well.

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April 12, 2011
Unpacking a cascade of bad bullpen strategies that feed off of each other.

Five questions: Kansas City Royals

March 22, 2011
A transitional season isn't necessarily an uninteresting season

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