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Mellow Yellow King
I wish Barry Zito hadn’t changed his delivery right before playing for the Giants. Could really use a fastball that’s not going 82.
gunsnascar
I allways wondered what was different about the way he pitched from his CY Young season to now. You say its his delivery? Ive seen his stats 1 or 2 of those SFG years wernt that horrible. What is his problem other than age?
Mellow Yellow King
There was a whole article about Barry Zito changing his delivery from his Overhand delivery while with the A’s to a 3/4 delivery, which was supposedly going to extend his career. Ironically it turned his career into crap for the second half of it. I’ll see if I can find that article, I’ll link it.
melonis_rex
He had his highest K rates really early in his career (when he won the Cy). If you look at his K rates in 2004-2006, they are really pedestrian (highest=6.89/9) along with a progressively increasing BB/9 rate.
He looked like an ace for one reason: he was a flyball pitcher in a park with the second most foul territory in baseball, and balls that would be homeruns were flyouts and plenty of pop fouls were caught instead of landing in the stands, producing extra outs. In other words, he was a slightly above average pitcher with no injury history when the Giants signed him.
start_wearing_purple
Long term plans for Barry Zito… I’m sure if they eat the salary the Newark Bears would be happy to give them any equipment they were planning on throwing away.