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Barry Zito

2021 Hall of Fame Ballot Series: Barry Zito

Five facts about Barry Zito: The first two tables below present Barry Zito's career as measured by Player won-lost records, in and out of context.

Basic Player Won-Lost Records
Value Decomposition
Season Team Age Games pWins pLosses pWORL pWOPA
2000OAK22
14
4.94.31.30.6
2001OAK23
35
13.810.35.43.7
2002OAK24
35
16.110.67.75.8
2003OAK25
35
13.514.01.6-0.3
2004OAK26
34
12.213.01.2-0.6
2005OAK27
35
13.414.41.2-0.8
2006OAK28
34
14.313.43.11.2
2007SFN29
34
12.215.3-0.4-2.2
2008SFN30
32
12.315.3-0.3-2.0
2009SFN31
34
12.013.11.5-0.1
2010SFN32
34
11.312.80.8-0.7
2011SFN33
13
3.15.7-1.8-2.4
2012SFN34
32
11.512.51.3-0.3
2013SFN35
30
7.611.4-1.9-3.1
2014-36
-
----
2015OAK37
3
0.30.4-0.1-0.1
------ ------ ------ ------ ------
CAREER (reg. season)
434
158.5166.620.5-1.2
------ ------ ------ ------ ------
PostSeason (career)
10
4.93.81.81.2
------ ------ ------ ------ ------
COMBINED
444
163.4170.422.3-0.0


Expected Player Won-Lost Records
Value Decomposition
Season Team Age Games eWins eLosses eWORL eWOPA
2000OAK22
14
5.53.72.51.9
2001OAK23
35
13.111.04.12.4
2002OAK24
35
14.911.85.23.3
2003OAK25
35
14.812.74.32.4
2004OAK26
34
12.912.32.30.6
2005OAK27
35
14.313.63.01.1
2006OAK28
34
13.713.92.00.1
2007SFN29
34
13.014.51.4-0.4
2008SFN30
32
12.814.81.1-0.7
2009SFN31
34
12.013.11.4-0.2
2010SFN32
34
11.312.80.8-0.7
2011SFN33
13
3.55.3-0.9-1.5
2012SFN34
32
10.813.10.3-1.3
2013SFN35
30
7.711.3-1.7-2.9
2014-36
-
----
2015OAK37
3
0.20.5-0.2-0.3
------ ------ ------ ------ ------
CAREER (reg. season)
434
160.6164.525.53.8
------ ------ ------ ------ ------
PostSeason (career)
10
4.74.01.40.8
------ ------ ------ ------ ------
COMBINED
444
165.3168.526.94.5


This is Barry Zito's first year on the Hall-of-Fame ballot.

Vote Prediction
It is simply an honor for Barry Zito to appear on a Hall-of-Fame ballot. That said, I could see Zito perhaps getting a token vote or two. He won a Cy Young award, pitched for six playoff teams, including one World Series winner. I'll be generous and predict that Zito gets five votes, not enough to stick around for a second ballot, but a respectable tip of the cap for a very good, if not quite Hall-of-Fame worthy career.

Player Won-Lost Records and Barry Zito
Zito spent his prime as part of one of the best starting pitching trios in baseball with the Oakland A's. Two of the three appear on this year's Hall-of-Fame ballot, both debuting this year. Interestingly, both Zito and Hudson won a World Series across the bay from Oakland with the San Francisco Giants. The third member of the trio, Mark Mulder, also pitched for a World Series winning team after leaving Oakland, although Mulder did not pitch at all in the 2006 postseason.

The next table compares the career records of Tim Hudson, Mark Mulder, and Barry Zito, as measured by Player won-lost records. The last row of the table shows their records from 2000 - 2004, the five seasons when they were teammates in Oakland.

Tim Hudson Mark Mulder Barry Zito
Season Games pWins pLosses pWORL Games pWins pLosses pWORL Games pWins pLosses pWORL
1999
249.06.2
4.0
 
 
2000
3313.610.9
4.5
279.310.0
0.8
144.94.3
1.3
2001
3614.611.1
5.6
3414.710.1
6.7
3513.810.3
5.4
2002
3414.010.6
5.4
3013.110.2
4.8
3516.110.6
7.7
2003
3415.49.5
7.9
2612.49.6
4.5
3513.514.0
1.6
2004
2711.28.6
4.1
3313.212.2
3.0
3412.213.0
1.2
2005
2913.112.5
3.2
3213.410.6
5.2
3513.414.4
1.2
2006
3513.013.9
1.9
176.27.7
-0.3
3414.313.4
3.1
2007
3413.710.9
5.4
30.82.4
-1.4
3412.215.3
-0.4
2008
239.07.4
3.3
30.00.2
-0.1
3212.315.3
-0.3
2009
72.32.3
0.4
 
3412.013.1
1.5
2010
3515.412.9
5.2
 
3411.312.8
0.8
2011
3313.912.1
4.4
 
133.15.7
-1.8
2012
2912.49.6
5.0
 
3211.512.5
1.3
2013
218.67.8
2.4
 
307.611.4
-1.9
2014
3111.712.1
2.0
 
 
2015
247.08.9
-0.2
 
30.30.4
-0.1
------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------
CAREER RECORDS489197.8167.5
64.5
20583.072.9
23.3
434158.5166.6
20.5
2000 - 200416468.750.7
27.5
15062.652.0
19.8
15360.552.2
17.2


Hudson was the only one who added much value outside of Oakland. But all three of them had careers worth remembering fondly.

Article last updated: December 10, 2020

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