Rylan Bannon 2021

[Frobby]

Are you kdding me?   Another two homer game for Bannon.   And the game’s not over.  

[Frobby]

Came up with the bases loaded, merely hit a 2-run single.  Bum!

[waroriole]

4-4, 2HR, 6 RBI

I don’t know what’s happened to this guy but he may get that average over .200 if he’s not careful. 

[ChuckS]

8 minutes ago, waroriole said:

4-4, 2HR, 6 RBI

I don’t know what’s happened to this guy but he may get that average over .200 if he’s not careful. 

He may get called up to Baltimore soon if he’s not careful.

 

[waroriole]

Just now, ChuckS said:

He may get called up to Baltimore soon if he’s not careful.

 

I hope not. Don’t need him getting screwed up with all the losers on the Orioles. 

[glenn__davis]

I've been following the minors for a long time and don't remember anyone being this hot.  And it came out of absolute nowhere. 

[Frobby]

25 minutes ago, glenn__davis said:

I've been following the minors for a long time and don't remember anyone being this hot.  And it came out of absolute nowhere. 

Obscure memory: Joe Mahoney had a crazy week or two one time.   I’ll have to see if I can dig that up.  
Edit - 6 homers in 9 games for Mahoney in 2010.   Hot, but not this hot.  

[RZNJ]

Super en Diego.  Baseball is a funny, funny game.

[Three Run Homer]

Bannon has had a freakishly weird season.  His power numbers are ok.  His K/BB numbers are ok.  But entering tonight, he had a batting average on balls in play of .142, in over 200 at bats.  Either he's hit a huge number of weak grounders/popups this season, or he's been cosmically unlucky.  I've never seen a BABIP that low outside of a small sample.  Maybe the karma is just evening out for him.  In any case, I wouldn't write him off as a prospect until I got an explanation for that low BABIP that suggests that it was "deserved".    

[Frobby]

8 minutes ago, Three Run Homer said:

Bannon has had a freakishly weird season.  His power numbers are ok.  His K/BB numbers are ok.  But entering tonight, he had a batting average on balls in play of .142, in over 200 at bats.  Either he's hit a huge number of weak grounders/popups this season, or he's been cosmically unlucky.  I've never seen a BABIP that low outside of a small sample.  Maybe the karma is just evening out for him.  In any case, I wouldn't write him off as a prospect until I got an explanation for that low BABIP that suggests that it was "deserved".    

His BABIP isn’t changing now, because most of the balls he’s hitting are not in play!

I think this is more than karma changing. It sounds more like a guy who was working through sone swing problems and suddenly broke through.   But this heater is unbelievable.   

[Yardball85]

I would not give up on him yet; a guy with his pedigree who has been in the top 30 since he got here, I would like to see him get his chance.  He should be ahead of Grenier and possibly even Urias/Martin/Mateo.  I hope they DFA Franco ASAP and get Jones and Bannon up here while they are hot.  Probably won't happen until September though. 

[RZNJ]

I would have given up on him two weeks ago.  Now I am thinking about him as the Orioles next 2B or 3B.  Baseball is a funny, funny game.   

[ChuckS]

27 minutes ago, RZNJ said:

I would have given up on him two weeks ago.  Now I am thinking about him as the Orioles next 2B or 3B.  Baseball is a funny, funny game.   

They seem to play him more at third.  Second would put less pressure on his bat and I believe I recall Luke saying that he felt Bannon was a better fit defensively there. 

[Frobby]

32 minutes ago, RZNJ said:

I would have given up on him two weeks ago.  Now I am thinking about him as the Orioles next 2B or 3B.  Baseball is a funny, funny game.   

That’s why it’s such an interesting sport to follow.   You think you know something, and it turns out you don’t.  Over and over.   And yet, some parts seem predictable.   

I look at Bannon, he seriously looks like a high school sophomore.  But when he connects, boom!   For whatever reason, his swing wasn’t producing this year, and now it’s at an insane level of overdrive that’s seldom seen.   Go figure.  
 

[Babkins]

4 hours ago, Yardball85 said:

I would not give up on him yet; a guy with his pedigree who has been in the top 30 since he got here, I would like to see him get his chance.  He should be ahead of Grenier and possibly even Urias/Martin/Mateo.  I hope they DFA Franco ASAP and get Jones and Bannon up here while they are hot.  Probably won't happen until September though. 

Jones has slashed .190/.242/.310 in 62 PA in August. Had a good game last night, but he hasn’t been hot in over a month.