Deconstructing Brian Bannister
THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball —
Harry gives it a go:
Bannister described the power change as an extreme ground ball pitch, his cutter as a mediocre ground ball pitch, and his fastball as an extreme fly ball pitch. Check, check and check.
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I see “CU”, and I have to take a double-take to figure if that means cutter, curve, or change-up. A suggestion: Ideally, we don’t use CU at all for any pitch. Cutter could be CT or FC. Change-up would be CH. And curveball could be CR, CV, or CB ...
Brian Bannister Looks at His PITCHf/x Numbers
FanGraphs Baseball —
... did talking about how he used PITCH/x information to change his approach this year. It is a really interesting interview that I urge you to listen to. This morning Harry Pavlidis posted a great breakdown of the things Bannister talked about. I wanted to expand on a couple of things Harry looked at. ...
The Morning Drive 7/29/09
MVN RSS —
... Great article at the Hardball Times yesterday about Brian Banister. Banister has been preaching his sabermetrical approach to pitching for a few years now. He put that knowledge to good use last night throwing 34 changeups, 32 sliders, 9 curveballs, 15 cut fastballs, and six 4 seam or two seam fastballs. All the while educing 12 groundouts. He's really more of a deep league option because of the very low K rate, but it's awesome to see a pitcher "pitch and think outside the box" ...
Nine Unassisted: M's dealing, Braylon injured, Vick and the Vikes
Roto Arcade —
... is wasting his time. He needs to be a full-time baseball blogger, now. Hardball Times offers more information than you could reasonably use on Bannister, but it's further proof that he's an interesting dude. [The Hardball Times, assist to ...
Link-O-Rama: More Wieters, Banny, Rule Changes
Camden Crazies —
... O’s-Royals game: Brian Bannister. Banny become a favorite of many baseball people last year after doing an interview with MLBTradeRumors in which he discussed sabermetric concepts like Batting Average on Balls In Play. That knowledge didn’t seem to help him much, as Banny put up a 5.76 ERA (5.03 FIP) after his “break-out” 2007 season (3.87 ERA, 4.40 FIP). Instead of abandoning statistics, Banny reworked his approach again. He talks about it in an interview (with Sports Radio 810 WHB) that Harry Pavlidis of The Hardball Times ...
Living On The Edge
Kansas City Royals —
... Read this article from my colleague Harry Pavladis at the Hardball Times to get a better understanding of Bannister's pitches and how he's relying on a cut fastball and a "power" change-up to become more of a ground ball pitcher. ...
Give Brian Bannister Ten Minutes, He’ll Fix Victor Zambrano And Dewon Brazelton
Jockish —
... one of them, I’d link to them right here). But as this MLB article notes, Bannister was skeptical of his success in ‘07 (due to a low K/9 rate, and an abnormally low BABIP), tried to make some tweaks in ‘08, got lit up, was eventually demoted, and went back to the drawing board in prep for 2009.
Specifically, he turned to MLB’s PITCHf/x technology. He talks (like, actual audio) about it in more depth in this interview from waaay back in July, The Hardball Times‘ Harry Pavlidis goes in depth to look at what’s changed for ...
Saberizing a Mac #4: Pitch f/x
Beyond the Box Score —
... This system has opened up a whole new avenue of baseball analysis. We are now able to see the nastiness of Neftali Feliz in graphical form and the sometimes hilarious innacuracy of umpires. Anaylist's like Josh Kalk, who are well refined in the craft, have gone on to work for major league teams. And BtB's own Harry Pavlidis is not far behind him. It's even reaching major league pitchers! Brian Bannister, through extensive use of Pitch f/x data, has transformed himself into a quality major league pitcher. ...
