While the book hasn’t been completely closed on Brian Bannister yet, Royals Review says Kansas City might as well shut him down anyway:
Time for the Royals to be Conservative
Frankly, no matter what the second opinion turns out to be, there’s little reason to pitch Bannister anymore this season. Given how much the Royals believe (somewhat unjustifiably) that they’ve been truly bedeviled by injuries this season, you’d think that now that there’s little left to play for, they’d be aggressively proactive about shutting people down. It’s taken awhile, but that’s (sorta apparently) happened with Gil Meche, which is a good thing.Yes, I said it, the Royals are doing a good and smart thing here. Two weeks too late, but I’ll take it.
The Royals will try to make due with pitchers like Bruce Chen and Lenny DiNardo in their rotation in the meantime. Not exactly a rotation to set the world on fire, but the Royals didn’t necessarily have that to begin with either.
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