In a November 2011 interview at FanGraphs, Bannister’s Kansas City pitching coach, Bob McClure, suggested that Bannister had committed a cardinal sin of old-school baseball: overthinking things. “Banny got a little overboard and tried to do more than he was capable of doing,” McClure said, adding, “He got into things like how the ball was turning, and to me, it’s not that complicated.” McClure, a pitching contemporary of Floyd’s, was a baseball lifer who harbored some reservations about the role of data; elsewhere in the interview, he spouted the age-old advice that had held back Hill:
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