Bannister on the source of his day/night splits

Hopefully, regulars at this blog ready JoPo's as well, but I just loved this quote:

"The hitters tell me my fastball looks faster when they’re still a little hungover."

Plus, more creepy texting from Bannister and his writer-in-home-port Posnanski.

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Rany wrote a great piece on Bannister's day/night splits...

...showing that it was likely just small sample size statistical noise. Before this year, when you look at multiple pitching stats, Bannister was no better in day games.

I probably disagree with you.

by NYRoyal on May 16, 2008 11:58 AM EDT 0 recs

Poor OPS in day games

Seems to be the biggest culprit. Teams like to rest a lot of regulars those days.

Or sheer aberration. Small sample size and all.

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by RoyalsRetro on May 16, 2008 12:18 PM EDT 0 recs

Yeah

I read Rany’s piece before JoPo’s, I think. I just liked the hangover quote.

Hope is not a strategy. And neither is playing Tony Pena every day. (Rany Jazayerli)

by devil_fingers on May 16, 2008 1:24 PM EDT 0 recs

I know

I read those pieces when they came out. I just wanted to share the hangover quote. Good stuff. Also, Bannister came up with better explanations (the best, of course, geing small sample size) himself.

Hope is not a strategy. And neither is playing Tony Pena every day. (Rany Jazayerli)

by devil_fingers on May 16, 2008 1:25 PM EDT 0 recs

The hangover quote was a good one. Given the much-ado-about-small-sample size silliness, he should have just left his response at that

I probably disagree with you.

by NYRoyal on May 16, 2008 2:11 PM EDT up 0 recs

Although there's probably something to the hangover

there’s a “PED” story that should be investigated. Seriously, sort of.

Take Mickey Mantle. I’m just using him because he’s well-known as a guy who abused alcohol while he was playing. Yeah, other guys were, but he’s just an obvious example. He used greenies, right? (I don’lt know one way or the other, I just assume that everyone of that era did). But how much is that offset by being hungover pretty much every day game? At his, um, “prowess,” the night games must have been tough, too.

I’m not saying Mantle gets bonus points, it’s just an intereseting thought. And depressing, too, to think about how how he and others could have been so much better.

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by devil_fingers on May 16, 2008 3:02 PM EDT up 0 recs

talking about small sample sizes...

Mantle, to me, is such an abberation of normality that I don’t think we could use him for anything…the dude hit 550 ft. bombs before the “Steroids Era”...has been claimed by many sportswriters as the fastest man from home to first…I think by most everyones’ counts he is prolly top 5 all time players, if not top 3 or number 1…and he drank non-stop…the dude thought he was gonna die before 40 like every other male in his family, so I can’t say I really blame him for going all out…maybe everyone was all messed up and it leveled the playing field…I just still don’t understand how those guys did that stuff…if I drink 4-8 beers and try to workout the next day…good grief, I feel like I’m gonna die…and I’m 27!...those dudes were drinking fifths’ of whiskey, wrecking cars, and then popping pills during games…WOW!...I think the biggest thing I have learned from nutrition and fitness is that everyone is different…and I think we all know the future of nutrition will involve genetics

as a side note I have heard of an explanation for more homeruns being the dissolution of talent thru having so many teams…making more players and less pitching talent faced…I would think that this could be disproved thru stats by showing the worldwide availibity of talent and also the ratio of players to population…I don’t think it is a wonder that homeruns are down after steroid testing implementation and public scrutiny of HGH use

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by PhattStairs on May 16, 2008 4:05 PM EDT up 0 recs