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twenty1thirteen
Please please please non tender Davies while you’re at it DM!
icedrake523
Burgos’ legal problems include: assaulting his girlfriend, fatally injuring two women in a hit and run, and kidnapping and trying to poison his ex-wife.
Bannister has a future in a major league front office since he’s not afraid of statistics like FIP.
CitizenSnips
Too gangsta for Jerry.
icedrake523
Yeah, Jerry was just suburban teenager gangsta.
Bob
Bannister is likely injured. Look up his last interview after a game that he was in. He is still in pain and hasn’t thrown his cutter for some time. He was a great guy to talk to, but he won’t be in KC next year.
TheBunk
I don’t see the purpose of trading Bannister, the royals might have the worst 2-5 in baseball and their top pitching prospects won’t be ready in until at least late 2011. Non tender him and sign him to a minor league contract. There’s no way he’d sign a minor league contract with any other team, KC is his best shot.
BWOzar
Sub-replacement level for 2 of the last 3 seasons by bWAR (though he was strong in ’07) means he really should be non-tendered. Should make a very strong non-roster invitee to someone’s Spring Training, for his (and his Fly Ball %’s) sake I hope it’s a team with a large ballpark. Pretty good fit for the Mets, Padres, Diamondbacks and, maybe, Tigers. As a Yankee fan I’d love him as next year’s Dustin Moseley/Sergio Mitre/Darrell Rasner-type AAA injury replacement starter.
I also wonder if the magical Dave Duncan could help turn him into a bit more of a worm burner and increase that ground ball rate…
Glove Affair
Pretty good fit for the Mets? No surprise there since that’s where the Royals got him.
Dave_Gershman
the whole point is to try to stay away from the Dustin Moseley’s, Mitre’s, and especially the Rasner’s.