Banny is optimistic; I am not

Brian Bannister, as most of us know, is a sabermetrics guy, but he is not reading into his early ST stat's. I think he is in jeopardy of losing a spot in the starting rotation. He says he'll be ready for opening day in three weeks... I'm not so sure.

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Banny is right, he will be ready for the games to start in three weeks.

I expect he will pitch nicely for Omaha.

Go Royals!

by BabyBlues on Mar 15, 2009 7:21 PM EDT reply actions

He's not taking meaning from his ST stats because he's a smart guy

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by NYRoyal on Mar 15, 2009 7:33 PM EDT reply actions

Agreed

I know ST stats have been a topic of discussion, and I agree that they are mostly meaningless, but I am reading into them at this point. I know my pessimism may be slightly premature, but I think he should be worried. I’m sick of reading about Banny being in competition with Luke Hochevar for a rotation spot. Luke is a lock. No question. In my humble opinion, the race at this point is between HoRam and Bannister; and it appears to be a race to 10.0.

by FretFriendly on Mar 15, 2009 7:59 PM EDT up reply actions

Huh?

I know ST stats have been a topic of discussion, and I agree that they are mostly meaningless, but I am reading into them at this point.

Do you see how this statement is confusing? So ST stats are meaningless, except for Bannister’s stats this year? Were his poor ST stats before his good 2007 season meaningful? If he had good stats this season would you suddenly feel better about him? I’m sure what’s going on here is that you had a pretty poor opinion of Bannister going into ST and then when you see poor ST stats, that just seems to reinforce your opinion. The problem is that if it is crappy data, then it doesn’t really aid one’s analysis; it just skews it.

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by NYRoyal on Mar 16, 2009 1:13 AM EDT up reply actions

do you mean that ST stats might be meaningful to the team's decisionmakers, perhaps?

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by Matt Klaassen on Mar 16, 2009 10:59 AM EDT up reply actions

I did have a poor opinion of him

going into ST… but I like him. I think it’s a love-hate thing.

and yes, I think that poor ST stats for Bannister will aid in the team’s decision making because I feel that Davies and Hooch are locks and DM and Trey have made it very clear that they want a lefty in the starting rotation. Therefore, if HoRam has a better ST than Banny, how does he get a spot?

by FretFriendly on Mar 16, 2009 2:49 PM EDT up reply actions