Barry Zito

After finishing off the AL, lets jump on over to the NL West and check out the amnesty candidates in this division. NL WEST Diamondbacks- Since players that signed new deals this offseason are ineligible to be amnestied, you have to go down the list to find a potential candidate. Though Kevin Towers has done a good [...]

The San Francisco Giants have traded left handed pitchers Jonathan Sanchez and Ryan Verdugo to the Kansas City Royals in exchange for outfielder Melky Cabrera the team announced. Earlier today, we learned that Major league sources close to Jon Paul Morosi of FOXSports said the team was willing to deal Sanchez in order to “free up money,”desperately [...]

Could a change of scenery be good for both Barry Zito of the San Francisco Giants and Carlos Zambrano of the Chicago Cubs? It was mentioned on the Monday, 8/22 show of the Razor and Mr. T on KNBR 680, the San Francisco Giants’ flagship station, that a rumor is floating around that the teams could [...]

At the beginning of the season, I wouldn’t have doubted that the Giants would at least get back to the NLCS, but as of today, you start to wonder if they’ll even make it to the post season. Not because they suck or they have been playing horribly, but because pretty much the entire team is injured [...]

Here’s a running list of injury updates around the Major Leagues: – Jason Marquis will be out for four to six weeks after fracturing his fibula in yesterday’s game against the Mets reports NBCSports.com. – Yankees third baseman, Alex Rodriguez, will have a day off today and will play at Triple-A tomorrow as part of his rehab [...]

Left handed pitcher Barry Zito was placed on the Disabled List again, with a supposed recurrence of the ankle injury that landed him on the DL earlier this year reports Carl Stewart of the San Jose Mercury News. This movement will create room for Jonathan Sanchez who was activated from the Disabled List. According to Stewart, [...]

Here’s a running list of injury updates around the Major Leagues: – Left fielder Delmon Young was placed on the 15-day Disabled List with a sprained ankle according to Phil Mackey of ESPN 1500 AM. Young injured his ankle after crashing into the left field wall at Miller Park yesterday. – Roy Oswalt has a mild bulging [...]

Here are a few notes regarding some Major League pitchers: – Right handed pitcher Tommy Hanson led the Braves to a 4-1 win against the Astros thus improving his record On the season to 8-4. In the game, Hanson struck out 14 batters, a career-high for him. He allowed one run and three hits over seven [...]

Left handed pitcher Barry Zito looked sharp in a three-inning simulated game yesterday, but still no date has been set for his return reports Andrew Baggarly of the Mercury News. Zito threw roughly 100 pitches off a mound yesterday between his work in the bullpen and the simulated game. Zito is rehabbing  as a starter, but that doesn’t mean he will [...]

Here’s a running list of injury updates for several Major league players: – Alex Rodriguez is not in the Yankees lineup for today’s game according to the LoHud Yankees Blog. Yesterday Rodriguez was taken out of the game with lower back and oblique stiffness. – According to the Giants official Twitter account, left handed pitcher Barry Zito [...]