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As the Barry Zito Turns
A common question from baseball fans who don't follow the Giants: "Oh, man. I bet Zito gets the holy heck booed out of him in San Francisco, right?" I've been asked that several times, and the answer is always, "Uh, not really." After two years, $30M+ thrown into the cove, and 65 mostly unwatchable...
Giants vs. the Giants
The San Francisco Giants and a losing streak. Barry Zito out to stop the bleeding, presumably with some dental floss and some Scotch tape. The San Jose Giants and a fantastic team. Their used tissues have more hope in them than the entire big club has. My plan was to flip back and forth. I have...
Early Worries
Almost three years ago to the day, I wrote up early season Worry Power Rankings. It's kind of funny to revisit them now -- half of the players on there had already passed "worry" on their way to "decay", and it's funny to think that there was a point when some of us were wondering if Barry Bonds...
2009 Community Projections: Barry Zito
Ah, the yearly community projection series. Every year, I start them too late, and we inadvertently skip someone. Like, oh, the eventual Cy Young award winner. Whoops. As such, it makes sense to start them earlier. And if we’re starting earlier, it makes sense to start with the players for...
Barry Zito Was Not a Good Free-Agent Signing
In honor of the AL Cy Young Award winner – Cliff Lee – I thought I’d create a little graph: Oh, that tantalizing question mark. You can see that the trend – a trend that’s completely impervious to sample-size challenges or any other brand of cynicism –...
Links Are Fun
Ned takes on Ed Wade in the semi-finals of the Worst GM tournament . As of this moment, it’s 40-39 so every vote counts. It’s hard to believe, but I didn’t think Ned deserved to make it this far, he should get crushed by Ed Wade, and that he should get killed by any potential...
Barry Zito Sent to Bullpen
He's just 16 months into a $126 million contract.
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