Bannister's comprehensive understanding of pitching including both traditional and sabermetric perspectives gives me great optimism that he will do what is necessary to improve where he needs to improve.  It isn't all about strike outs, but he understands how important they are.  And that is why he's working out his secondary pitches so that he can have more out pitches and thus more strike outs.  No, he won't get up to 8 or 9 K/9, but I think he can and will increase his strike out rate.  I don't think he's a sub-4.00 ERA going forward, but I do think he is and will continue to be a good #2/3 starting pitcher.

Both of the two articles he mentioned were featured here.  Granted, he could have uncovered one or the other independently, done a search on Banny and encountered the other article.  

However, considering he was a KCStar guy before he headed to Yahoo, I wouldn't be surprised if he still follows the R's a little, and this would be the best place to start.

Anyway, it was a good article.