"I thought Zack had a chance to be the first 10 WAR pitcher."

"I thought Zack had a chance to be the first 10 WAR pitcher."

Our old friend Brian Bannister. I lobby for Banny to replace Minaya.

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God damn, I didn't realize Greinke had a WAR that was so high...

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"

by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Nov 22, 2009 9:46 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Odd

Bannister is so comfortable with WAR, but Ambiorix Burgos is much more adept at gunplay.

by TedBerg on Nov 22, 2009 10:13 PM EST reply actions 1 recs

That trade looks worse and worse every time I see a story like this.

by BobbyV_Incognito on Nov 22, 2009 10:48 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Well played sir.

by dtro on Nov 22, 2009 11:48 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

rec'd

"We're investigating the investigative procedure of the investigation of Tony Bernazard"---Omar Minaya (he really didn't say it but he would"

by firejerrynow on Nov 23, 2009 6:32 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

"But O.P.S., despite its relatively recent ascension in popularity,

is probably the most accurate measurement of the league’s most productive hitters."
Really? What about wOBA or other linear weights?
I’m worried that when sabermetrics “hit the mainstream” people will misuse them. I can see MGL, or someone, calling peope out for it constantly.

by EtSuKe on Nov 22, 2009 10:17 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

This must be why Omar traded him

Didn’t want him confusing superstars like Frenchy, I know he wasnt on the team but work with me, with things not on the scoreboard.

by Gina on Nov 22, 2009 10:17 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

I miss Brian Bannister more and more with each passing quote.

"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw

by squid92 on Nov 22, 2009 11:33 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

i was at keyspan

that storied day when we retired his number. he walked right by me and i said, “go mets!” and he said, “yeah, man!” i really made the most of that one.

by letsgocyclones on Nov 23, 2009 1:34 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

by letsgocyclones on Nov 23, 2009 1:37 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

oh

just one more thing about this. the day the ’clones retired no. 19 there was somebody wearing it on the field. doh.

by letsgocyclones on Nov 23, 2009 1:45 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I think that right there sums up the Mets front office perfectly

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"

by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Nov 23, 2009 9:13 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

wow

did we know about the studio photography? He admires the work of Uwe Duettmann.

by letsgocyclones on Nov 23, 2009 1:43 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Brian Bannister is the most interesting man in the world

by James Kannengieser on Nov 23, 2009 7:54 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Brian Bannister is the real life version of our imagined Brian Stokes.

"He's definitely mixing it into his repertoire. That's French for 'repertoire' " - Keith Hernandez

by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on Nov 23, 2009 8:42 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Haha, exactly

"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw

by squid92 on Nov 23, 2009 12:08 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

He drinks Dos Equis

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"

by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Nov 23, 2009 9:13 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

No one was really too down on it at the time,

because it seemed like Banny didn’t have a spot on the Mets, but of all the Omar trades that is the one I most want to undo. Bannister just seems like he’d be a really fun guy to root for.

by dtro on Nov 23, 2009 10:15 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

What do you mean? There was plenty of room for him

In the 2006 off-season, Pedro was still out with that surgery that would sideline him until August/September 2007.

Tom Glavine was still chugging along.

El Duque was there, but his injury right before the NLDS a sign of things to come, a red flag.

Steve Traschel sealed his fate when he took himself out of that NLCS game. Everyone knew, himself included, that he was not going to be part of the team going forward.

John Maine impressed during the season, and during the postseason, and cemented himself a spot in the rotation.

Oliver Perez, he was sucky in the month or so we had him, and was not horribly sucky in the playoffs (but he wasn’t dominating or anything, either).

Mike Pelfrey was younger, and had a token call-up, but was otherwise not ready, as his 2007 stats showed.

Basically, our rotation was Glavine, El Duque (injury risk), Maine (unproven), Perez (unproven), Pelfrey (unproven), with a bunch of starts from Jorge Sosa. There was definitely room for Brian Bannister.

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"

by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Nov 23, 2009 11:33 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs