Now Let Brian Bannister Blow Your Mind (Again)

By David Raposa | Published: August 21, 2009

As Tim Marchman wrote (in one of the blog posts I’m pilfering for this blog post): "To think about the arms God gave some of these clowns while leaving [Brian] Bannister with 86 mph…"

[A]fter reporters asked him why he got hammered he led off by saying, ‘Pitch/FX is telling me that my pitches aren’t sinking as much,’ then went on about how awesome Mark Buehrle is and referenced mysterious rules he has (which he apparently broke) that he won’t reveal for fear of giving batters advantages but involve set sequences in certain counts.

[...]

He mentioned this after I’d put my recorder away, by the way, but he also talked about how the central insight of DIPS theory is that the distribution of balls in play is random enough that you should position fielders according to range rather than according to where you expect the ball to go. He’s really not a guy who’s just talking about half-understood theories.

The more I hear & read from Bannister, the more I think he might be able to lay hands on Mark Prior and turn him into a 400-game winner. Or at the very least show an all-hat no-cattle guy like Oliver Perez the difference between a ball and a strike.

[Brian Bannister should be your favorite player / Damn you, Posnanski! | TimMarchman.com]

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