So far 8 awards have been given out by This Year In Baseball, TYIB. Red Sox players have won half of those rewards and when not finishing in first have finished no worse than third place. Three of the four non first place winners had the second highest amount of votes. This years TYIB awards, voted on by the fans, show just big Red Sox Nation has become. So far, Josh Beckett has won the award for best starting pitcher, Jonathan Papelbon won for best closer, Clay Buchholz and his no-hitter won for best performance of the year and Hideki Okijima won the award for best setup man of the year. Though all of those accomplishments were nationally recognized, three of the pitchers made that AL all star team, and Buchholz throw his no-hitter as a rookie, it shows how much Red Sox fans really want to reward their players for a job well done.
