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Barry Zito

Age: 37
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 205 lb
Number: #75

Born: May 13, 1978 in Las Vegas, NV, United States
MLB debut: July 22, 2000

dbWAR: 9.3
IP: 7.0
ERA: 10.29
FIP: 12.56
K/9: 2.6
FIP−: 317

Barry Zito was a starting pitcher for the Oakland Athletics. In 2015 he struck out 2 batters over 7.0 innings across 3 appearances, 2 of them starts, going 0-0. His ERA of 10.29 was 159.6% higher than the league average of 3.96. Stripping out defence, his 12.56 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 21.1% of swings (8.0% of every pitch he threw), walked 16.2% of the batters he faced and struck out 5.4%. His -0.7 dbWAR is built from that FIP rather than runs allowed, so it credits him for what he controls and not for the defence behind him.

League context

Percentile among qualified pitchers, 2015 regular season.

FIP12.56

K/92.6

WHIP2.57

WAR-.7

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2015; his career began in 2000, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2015	OAK	3	2	7.0	0	0	12	8	2	6	10.29	12.56	2.57	2.6	7.7	260	317	-0.7
2013	SF	30	25	133.1	5	11	173	85	86	54	5.74	4.92	1.70	5.8	3.6	148	127	-0.4
2012	SF	32	32	184.1	15	8	186	85	114	70	4.15	4.49	1.39	5.6	3.4	103	112	0.8
2011	SF	13	9	53.2	3	4	51	35	32	24	5.87	5.60	1.40	5.4	4.0	149	142	-0.6
2010	SF	34	33	199.1	9	14	184	92	150	84	4.15	4.25	1.34	6.8	3.8	102	104	1.8
2009	SF	33	33	192.0	10	13	179	86	154	81	4.03	4.31	1.35	7.2	3.8	93	100	2.4
2008	SF	32	32	180.0	10	17	186	103	120	102	5.15	4.72	1.60	6.0	5.1	119	109	1.4
2007	SF	34	33	196.2	11	13	182	99	131	83	4.53	4.82	1.35	6.0	3.8	101	108	1.5
2006	OAK	34	34	221.0	16	10	211	94	151	99	3.83	4.89	1.40	6.1	4.0	85	108	1.6
2005	OAK	35	35	228.1	14	13	185	98	171	89	3.86	4.34	1.20	6.7	3.5	90	101	2.6

Batting Regular season


2013	SF	24	43	5	2	0	8	.147	.147	.147	.000	.192	0.0%	18.6%	.131	-6.1	-32	-0.1
2012	SF	31	69	4	2	6	12	.075	.169	.075	.000	.098	8.7%	17.4%	.131	-10.2	-31	-0.0
2011	SF	7	14	0	0	1	5	.000	.071	.000	.000	.000	7.1%	35.7%	.051	-2.9	-93	-0.1
2010	SF	31	66	6	2	1	17	.118	.135	.118	.000	.176	1.5%	25.8%	.117	-10.9	-44	-0.2
2009	SF	32	67	6	0	4	16	.118	.182	.118	.000	.171	6.0%	23.9%	.151	-9.9	-23	-0.1
2008	SF	29	59	6	2	4	10	.118	.182	.118	.000	.146	6.8%	16.9%	.151	-8.8	-24	-0.0
2007	SF	31	68	7	3	2	16	.113	.141	.113	.000	.152	2.9%	23.5%	.121	-12.2	-46	-0.2
2006	OAK	2	4	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-1.1	-128	-0.1
2005	OAK	3	7	1	0	0	2	.143	.143	.143	.000	.200	0.0%	28.6%	.128	-1.2	-38	-0.0

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason pitching

Postseason Barry Zito's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	GS	IP	W	L	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2012 Post	SF	Postseason total	3	3	16.0	2	0	16	3	1	6	13	1.69	1.38	7.3
		NLDS	1	1	2.2	0	0	4	2	1	4	4	6.75	3.00	13.5
		NLCS	1	1	7.2	1	0	6	0	0	1	6	0.00	0.91	7.0
		World Series	1	1	5.2	1	0	6	1	0	1	3	1.59	1.24	4.8
2006 Post	OAK	Postseason total	2	2	11.2	1	1	11	6	3	6	1	4.63	1.46	0.8
		ALDS	1	1	8.0	1	0	4	1	1	3	1	1.13	0.88	1.1
		ALCS	1	1	3.2	0	1	7	5	2	3	0	12.27	2.73	0.0
2005–2015		Postseason total · 2 Octobers	5	5	27.2	3	1	27	9	4	12	14	2.93	1.41	4.6

Postseason batting

Postseason Barry Zito's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	H	RBI	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2012 Post	SF	Postseason total	3	6	5	2	2	2	.400	.400	.400	.800
		NLDS	1	1	1	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLCS	1	3	2	1	1	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000
		World Series	1	2	2	1	1	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

Platoon splits

How left- and right-handed hitters fare against him.

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2015. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHB	5	5	2	2	0	1	.400	.400	1.600	.835	20.0%
vs RHB	32	26	10	2	6	1	.385	.500	.692	.509	3.1%

Pitch sequencing

What Barry Zito throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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Four-seamSinkerChangeupCurveball

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Season


Four-Seam Fastball	30.0%	45	83.4	2,023	35.6%	14.3%	8	—	—
Sinker	28.0%	42	83.9	2,219	38.1%	0.0%	5	—	—
Changeup	22.0%	33	73.8	1,407	51.5%	36.8%	8	—	—
Curveball	20.0%	30	69.5	1,763	33.3%	20.0%	10	—	—

Barry Zito's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters. BAA and OPS are what hitters did against each pitch, credited to the one that ended the plate appearance, and are left blank under 15 at-bats.

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How these are computed

wOBA uses linear weights measured from this season's own play-by-play rather than published constants, and wRC+ is park-adjusted against that same league. dbWAR is our own open implementation — not fWAR or bWAR — and the full derivation, including its simplifications, is on the methodology page.