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UCB National League West Predictions
Published 4/3/2009 by PHE at Pitchers Hit Eighth :: A St. Louis Cardinals blog
... San Francisco Giants - This team has the makings of a formidable playoff rotation if Barry Zito can continue to improve on his disastrous start in San Fran.  Cy Young winner ...

Mets Starting Pitcher PECOTA Comparables
Published 2/26/2009 by Eric Simon at Amazin' Avenue
... Steve Bedrosian Ernie Broglio Steve Arlin Ron Darling Oliver Perez Tim Lollar Barry Zito Kevin Gross Don Gullett Steve Carlton ...

Class Act
Published 2/18/2009 by 3daysofcryin at Three Days of Cryin'
... Torii Hunter sure seems like a great guy.  Granted, the write-offs are probably necessary at that income level, but we get the feeling he’d be doing this stuff even without the tax benefits. Arte could have overpaid for worse guys, that’s for sure. ...

Walkoff Walk Presents the BONILLA Projection System: Age 31
Published 1/27/2009 by Kris Liakos at Walkoff Walk
... Barry Zito, SP: Had a career low ERA+ of 85 last season. Has come to the point where I feel bad making fun of him. That puts him in very rare company on this website. Just to get some attention, BONILLA is predicting him to have a return to form and contend for the Cy Young in 2009. ...

2009 Poetic Interlude #3: 88 Lines About 44 Athletics
Published 1/25/2009 by monkeyball at Athletics Nation
[Original lyrics here.] 88 Lines About 44 Athletics Durazo was the Holy Grail, he held out for a better pitch. Emil was a different type, he's the one who drove runs in. Barry had a wack curve, and umps were afraid of a curve like that. Melhuse earned his paycheck sitting down where the coaches sat. [Full Poetic Interlude after the jump.] Menechino had an armless hurl, a peripatetic ...

Barry Zito Is Paris Hilton’s Baseball Love
Published 1/14/2009 by Niki at RightFielders Women in Sports
... clubgoer tells us. As a biography, Barry Zito was born on May 13, 1978 in Las Vegas, Nevada so his age is 30. He attended the UC Santa Barbara and was named Freshman All-America with a good strikeout record. He then got transferred to USC where he was named first-team All-America. He also played in the Cape Cod League. Zito was selected by the Oakland Athletics in the 1999 MLB draft. He finished third in the 2001 season of the American League with 8.61 strikeouts per nine innings. He striked-out more than 200 batters in the next season and was chosen as the winner of the 2002 ...

What Will Derek Lowe Get?
Published 11/19/2008 by JC at Sabernomics
... Derek Lowe is a better pitcher than Barry Zito, but in June he’s going to be 36 years old—a year older than the age Zito will be when his contract ends. I expect that Lowe will pitch well for a few more seasons, and I think he deserves a hefty payday; but, $18 million a seasons for seven years is a bit much to expect. ...

Giants Positional Post-Mortem: Center Field
Published 11/3/2008 by Paul Rice at Bugs & Cranks
... anything special with the bat, then what in blue hell are the Giants paying for? Rowand will be 31 next year and given his eagerness to throw his body around and play through the pain that inevitably follows, I doubt he’s going to age very gracefully. Throw in the fact that he doesn’t have good strike zone judgment, and that players like that don’t last too long into their 30’s, and you’ve got a recipe for a contractual albatross. The Giants are happy with one, thank you. ...

That's a Wrap
Published 9/30/2008 by Paul SF at YFSF
... 143 ERA+ puts him 12th among qualifying left-handed starters during their age-24 season. It's the best since Barry Zito's 158 in 2002. The names above him include ...

White Sox live another day, thanks to Buehrle
Published 9/29/2008 by Jim at Sox Machine
... . So Year One of the unprecedented four-year pitcher contract can be called an unqualified success. Making it look even better is the fact the pitcher Buehrle outpitched Barry Zito , the off-speeding lefty he was most compared to, in the first year of his contract last year, not to mention Zito's complete collapse this season. Zito lost 25 innings, five wins and gained 0.70 on his ERA, making him a below-average pitcher as his seven-year, $126 million contract was just getting started. Buehrle, on the other hand, earned every penny of his raise, and for exactly $50 million ...

100 Games of Suckitude
Published 9/27/2008 by Nate (noreply@blogger.com) at Nats Triple Play
... 63 Sat, Jun 7 SFG L 0-6 25-38 J Sanchez S Hill 64 Sun, Jun 8 SFG L 3-6 25-39 B Zito G Mock ...

More Eulogies for the Eliminated
Published 9/26/2008 by Jordi (theserioustip@yahoo.com) at Thunder Matt's Saloon
... : Your first year without the support of the Greatest. Yet you kept an albatross. Old, immobile, useless, you remind me of how I wish to be. However, like you did to the Greatest, we are forced to banish all memory of your existence. May you rest in peace.

This is all to familiar
Published 8/27/2008 by ToyCannon at True Blue LA
While Dodger fans ponder the latest inability of the Dodgers to find a way to score via the basehit it should be very familiar to everyone concerned. It was only a year ago when the same problem manifested itself leaving everyone groping for an explanation. 108 Thu, Aug 2 box LAD SFG L 2-4 58-50 2 1.0 3:18 B Zito B Tomko 56,000 - 109 Fri, Aug 3 box LAD ARI L 0-1 58-51 3 2.0 2:32 D Davis C Billingsle ...

Game 72: Tigers (33-38) at Giants (31-41)
Published 6/18/2008 by Ian Casselberry at Bless You Boys
... Armando Galarraga (6-2, 3.31) vs. Barry Zito (2-10, 5.88) The Tigers came back strong after their first loss in six games for a 5-1 win last night over the Giants, perhaps indicating that Monday's game was more of a stumble than a fall.  As Kurt said at Mack Avenue Tigers, the loss felt like more of a fluke rather than a return to bad form.  Clinching a series win this afternoon would confirm that sentiment, however.  Is it at all strange that Barry Zito's record resembles Justin Verlander ...

News and Views
Published 5/26/2008 by Rich at Baseball Analysts
... Views: The Jones and Loaiza signings were two of the biggest wastes of money in the past year. (Note: Barry Zito was signed more than a year ago.) ...

As if it weren’t dragged out enough
Published 1/31/2008 by Tommy at Breaking Balls
... have hit a snag regarding the length of the contract. Astute observers will recall that last winter the Mets (wisely) balked at offering Barry Zito more than five years. The ESPN headline claims a deal won’t be reached until tomorrow, if at all. C. C. Sabathia may not want to start ...

SFR in the Infield - NL West
Published 12/27/2007 by Dan Agonistes at Dan Agonistes
... Branyan SDN 5 56 12 10 1.8 Kevin Kouzmanoff SDN 5 360 77 80 -2.5 Khalil Greene SDN 6 662 182 158 17.9 Geoff Blum SDN 6 43 12 11 -0.2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Matt Cain SFN 1 28 3 3 0.0 Barry Zito SFN 1 25 2 4 -1.3 Matt Morris SFN 1 ...

Catfish Stew: The Haren Haul (2007 Photo Outtakes)
Published 12/17/2007 at Baseball Toaster
... . Note of caution for Billy Beane: Guillen's career probably suffered greatly from being rushed to the major leagues at age 21 by the Pirates, when he still could have used some more seasoning in the minors. Brett Anderson : Fairy Tale: Barry Zito Real World: ...

Yoink!
Published 12/17/2007 by Grant <wfboof@hotmail.com> at McCovey Chronicles
... The difference is in the contact. Hitters are connecting with pitches in the strike zone about 6% more than they were during Lowry's best season. That kind of jump is usually seen with pitchers with declining velocity, which is probably why the drop in strikeouts is so frustrating. Lowry is throwing 89-90 mph, just as he was when he first came up. When a pitcher goes from 89-90 to 84-87, it's easier to explain the strikeout rate drop and increased contact. ...

Community Projection: Miguel Batista
Published 11/30/2007 by Jeff <jbingham@gmail.com> at Lookout Landing
... Anyway, the point of all this is that the Batista signing would've earned a 3D score last winter. I'd always liked him as a useful innings-eater who could make 30 starts and keep the ball on the ground, and while I wasn't wild about giving that kind of guy a $25m contract at the age of 36, the Mariners could've done a lot worse. I was happy to add a stable arm to an unstable rotation. ...