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Rookie of the Year Snubs That Look Even Worse in Hindsight

Dec 21, 2015

Features, Major League Baseball, Opinions & Predictions

The Rookie of the Year Award is not intended to go to the rookie who will eventually have the best career. It is for the rookie who had the best season. Plenty of Rookies of the Year have gone on to have magnif...

Fourteen-Year Veteran Pitcher Barry Zito Retires From Baseball

Josh Eastern

Oct 19, 2015

Headlines, Oakland Athletics, San Francisco Giants

Following a 14-year MLB career spent in the Bay Area with the San Francisco Giants and Oakland A's, southpaw pitcher Barry Zito has announced his retirement from baseball. Through an essay from The Players' ...

One More Time: A’s Call Up Former Ace Barry Zito

Jamey Vinnick

Sep 16, 2015

Breaking News, Headlines, Oakland Athletics, San Francisco Giants

UPDATE: https://twitter.com/susanslusser/status/644212730451202049 So it doesn't look Barry Zito will make a last start, unless Oakland decides to give him one late in the season. While this looks bad on ...

A Tim Hudson-Barry Zito showdown needs to happen

Joshua Sadlock

Sep 11, 2015

Features, Headlines, Major League Baseball, Oakland Athletics, Opinions & Predictions, San Francisco Giants

Tim Hudson is 40 years old. Though he hasn't written it in stone, the 2015 season will be his final year in the big leagues. Retirement is calling for Hudson, winner of 221 Major League games. After beginning h...

Oakland Athletics’ Barry Zito Heading To Triple-A

Max Wildstein

Apr 5, 2015

American League, American League West, Major League Baseball, Oakland Athletics

The Oakland Athletics have announced that they have reassigned left-handed pitcher Barry Zito to the minor leagues. Zito has accepted his assignment and will report to the Athletics' Triple-A affiliate at Nashv...

Sandoval Continues to Chew Fat about Time in San Francisco

Chris Roth

Mar 9, 2015

American League, Boston Red Sox, Features, Major League Baseball, National League, National League West, Opinions & Predictions, San Francisco Giants

He was beloved by the San Francisco faithful. He was a member of three World Series championship teams, while also bringing home the World Series MVP during 2012’s fall classic. Despite all of these seemingly g...

A’s Will Rely on Vogt, Phegley to Handle Talented Staff

Idalia Topete

Feb 26, 2015

American League, American League West, Headlines, Major League Baseball, Oakland Athletics

"I Believe In Stephen Vogt" was a popular chant amongst the A's faithful in the right field bleachers during the 2014 season. This season, the Athletics management has unofficially adopted the same mantra by tr...

Barry Zito Plans To Throw For Teams Tuesday

Tyler Milliken

Feb 3, 2015

Major League Baseball, Rumors

According to Jerry Cransick of ESPN and Baseball America, 36-year-old Barry Zito will be throwing for a number of teams on Tuesday with the hope of landing a contract for the 2015 season. He'll likely get offe...

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