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Non-Tender Candidate: Brian Bannister

By Mike Axisa | October 9, 2010 at 5:46pm CDT

One of Dayton Moore's very first moves as general manager of the Royals was to swap hard-throwing but enigmatic reliever Ambiorix Burgos to the Mets for then 25-year-old righthander Brian Bannister. Bannister had just 38 big league innings to his credit at the time (4.26 ERA) but he was consistently excellent in minors (3.31 career minor league ERA at the time of the trade) and considered ready to step into a big league rotation. After a brief tune-up in Triple-A to start the 2007 season, the now 29-year-old Bannister joined Kansas City's starting staff and has remained there ever since.

Nearly four full years after the fact, it's easy to declare Moore the winner of the trade. Not only has Bannister out-WAR'ed Burgos 7.1 to 0.0 since the deal, but the latter hasn't even pitched since 2008 due to a litany of legal issues. Perhaps best known for his love of advanced statistics, Bannister has given the Royals 629.1 innings across 108 starts (and one relief appearance) in his four seasons with the team, posting 5.13 ERA with 5.2 K/9 and 2.9 BB/9. Shoulder tendinitis this August prevented him from eclipsing the 150 inning mark for a fourth straight season.

After making $2.3MM in 2010, Bannister will go through the arbitration process one final time this winter before becoming a free agent after next season. He posted an ugly 6.34 ERA in 127.2 innings this year, and the .302/.365/.503 line opponents managed against him approximates Ryan Braun's 2010 production (.304/.365/.501). Never a big stuff guy, Bannister's fastball actually crept up in the last few seasons and now sits right around 90 mph.

Bannister was a fine piece when he was making six figures, but now that he's entered into multi-million dollar territory, Moore will assuredly think twice before tendering the righty a contract this offseason. In fact, Bob Dutton of The Kansas City Star recently predicted that the team will shop Bannister around this offseason and could non-tender him if they don't find a taker. Bannister's name has been featured at each of the last two trade deadlines, but obviously no deal was made and now the team is facing the possibility of losing him for nothing.

If you haven't seen it already, or if you just want to read it again, make sure you check out the Q&A Tim conducted with Bannister back in 2008 (parts one, two, and three). Once you're done with that, click here to vote about what you think the Royals will do with Bannister after he season, and here to see the results.

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Brian Bannister Kansas City Royals Non-Tender Candidates

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  1. twenty1thirteen

    10 years ago

    Please please please non tender Davies while you’re at it DM!

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  2. icedrake523

    10 years ago

    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.

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    • CitizenSnips

      10 years ago

      Too gangsta for Jerry.

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      • icedrake523

        10 years ago

        Yeah, Jerry was just suburban teenager gangsta.

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  3. Bob

    10 years ago

    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.

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  4. TheBunk

    10 years ago

    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.

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  5. BWOzar

    10 years ago

    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…

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    • Glove Affair

      10 years ago

      Pretty good fit for the Mets? No surprise there since that’s where the Royals got him.

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    • Dave_Gershman

      10 years ago

      the whole point is to try to stay away from the Dustin Moseley’s, Mitre’s, and especially the Rasner’s.

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