Brian Bannister

The Royals reached one-year deals with right-handers Brian Bannister and Kyle Davies on Saturday and decided against offering a contract to catcher John Buck, making him a free agent.  

The Kansas City Royals reached agreements on one-year contracts with pitchers Brian Bannister, Roman Colon and Kyle Davies, avoiding arbitration.  

The Kansas City Royals reached agreements on one-year contracts with pitchers Brian Bannister, Roman Colon and Kyle Davies, avoiding arbitration.  

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- The Royals reached one-year deals with right-handers Brian Bannister and Kyle Davies on Saturday and decided against offering a contract to catcher John Buck, making him a free agent.  

I’m in Las Vegas on one of my annual (ahem) fact-finding missions this week, and though I’ve yet to secure a ticket for tomorrow night’s welterweight title bout between Manny Pacquiao and Miguel Cotto, I can happily report bobbleheads of the two combatants are available in most of the hotel gift shops for a measly [...]  

“I thought that could push him over the top, because his won/loss record was way better than mine,” Greinke said. “But I’m also a follower, since Brian Bannister’s on our team, of sabermetric stuff and going into details of stats about what you can control.” Bannister, a right-handed starter, is known for his appreciation of modern pitching metrics, which emphasize the factors for which pitchers are essentially responsible: walks, strikeouts...