BALTIMORE -- Next for the Royals comes the club with the best record in the Major Leagues, the surprising Tampa Bay Rays.
They're 20 games over .500 and coming off a three-game sweep of the Boston Red Sox. These are the same guys that had...
I liked "Devil Rays" better. "Tampa Bay Rays" sounds awkward and the Rays comes out too short sounding.
For today's battle it's Brian Bannister (4.88 ERA) versus Edwin Jackson (4.33 ERA) o the 4th of July. Why are so many young Rays good now? I...
KANSAS CITY -- The six walks Brian Bannister threw didn't bother him so much in his last start.
He doesn't like to walk batters (who does?), but the Royals still won and, statistician that he is, Bannister realized the walks weren't even a...
It's been a whole 48 hours around here, and the Rangers haven't called up a single hot-shot prospect. I'm getting concerned.
In the last week, they've gone prospect happy. Gerald Laird went down; Max Ramirez, who had never played above Double-A...
Background
Brian Patrick Bannister (born February 28, 1981 in Scottsdale, Arizona) is a starting pitcher for the Kansas City Royals in Major League Baseball. He is a devout Christian and the oldest son of former Major League All-Star pitcher Floyd Bannister, who pitched from 1977-1992 with Houston, Seattle, Chicago (AL), Kansas City, California, and Texas. His uncle, Greg Cochran, also played in the Yankees' and Athletics' minor league systems. His brother Brett is currently a pitcher in the Mariners' system and his brother Cory has committed to play at Stanford in 2008. Bannister is a member of Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity.
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