Barry Zito

2000–2015 · 15 seasons · Bats left, throws left · Born 1978

JavaScript is switched off, so the extra columns cannot be unfolded. Every season below is already on the page and every number in it is real.

Pitching: 14 of 18 columns. Folded away: HR, BFP, CG, SHO. Hitting: 17 of 26 columns. Folded away: CS, TB, HBP, wOBA, wRAA, WAR: Bat, WAR: Field, WAR: Run, WAR: Pos.

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Pitching

SeasonTeamLgGGSIPWLSVSOBBHERERAWHIPWARFIP
2000Oakland AthleticsAL141492.7740784564282.721.181.73.81
2001Oakland AthleticsAL3535214.3178020580184833.481.234.03.53
2002CYOakland AthleticsAL3535229.3235018278182702.751.133.03.87
2003Oakland AthleticsAL3535231.71412014688186853.301.182.94.05
2004Oakland AthleticsAL3434213.011110163812161064.481.391.84.50
2005Oakland AthleticsAL3535228.31413017189185983.861.201.84.34
2006Oakland AthleticsAL3434221.01610015199211943.831.401.04.89
2007San Francisco GiantsNL3433196.71113013183182994.531.351.04.82
2008San Francisco GiantsNL3232180.0101701201021861035.151.601.04.72
2009San Francisco GiantsNL3333192.01013015481179864.031.351.84.30
2010San Francisco GiantsNL3433199.3914015084184924.151.341.34.25
2011San Francisco GiantsNL13953.7340322451355.871.40-0.95.60
2012San Francisco GiantsNL3232184.3158011470186854.151.390.04.49
2013San Francisco GiantsNL3025133.351108654173855.741.70-1.24.92
2015Oakland AthleticsAL327.00002612810.292.57-0.712.56
Career15 seasons4334212576.7165143018851064238111574.041.3418.5

Hitting

SeasonTeamLgGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBAVGOBPSLGOPSWAR
2000Oakland AthleticsAL1400000000000
2001Oakland AthleticsAL3555000000040.000.000.000.000-0.1
2002Oakland AthleticsAL3564000000030.000.000.000.000-0.2
2003Oakland AthleticsAL3566000000010.000.000.000.000-0.2
2004Oakland AthleticsAL3444000000030.000.000.000.000-0.1
2005Oakland AthleticsAL3577010000020.143.143.143.286-0.1
2006Oakland AthleticsAL3443000000020.000.000.000.000-0.1
2007San Francisco GiantsNL3468622700032160.113.141.113.254-1.0
2008San Francisco GiantsNL3259511600024100.118.182.118.299-0.8
2009San Francisco GiantsNL3467512600004160.118.182.118.299-0.9
2010San Francisco GiantsNL3466511600021170.118.135.118.252-1.0
2011San Francisco GiantsNL131413000000150.000.071.000.071-0.3
2012San Francisco GiantsNL3269533400026120.075.169.075.245-0.9
2013San Francisco GiantsNL304334350002080.147.147.147.294-0.6
2015Oakland AthleticsAL300000000000
Career15 seasons43441834412350001118990.102.146.102.248-6.2

Gold shading marks a top-five finish in that league that season. Filled for first, shaded for second and third, faint for fourth and fifth, with the exact place in the corner of the cell. These rankings are ours, not part of the source data: we work them out from the season lines on this site and count each league on its own, so a first in the American League is not a first across baseball. Rate statistics use the same qualifying line as the season tool, which is why a relief pitcher can have the lowest ERA in his league and still have no shading on it — he did not pitch enough innings to qualify. A ranking is only drawn when its column is on screen; press Show all columns for the rest. On a season where this player both batted and pitched, the WAR column is left unshaded either way: the data keeps one WAR ranking for the year and does not say which of the two it belongs to, and a guess here would put a league lead on the wrong line.

The dark chips beside a season are awards. Those are records rather than our arithmetic: MVP (Most Valuable Player), CY (Cy Young Award), ROY (Rookie of the Year), GG (Gold Glove), SS (Silver Slugger). Two of them are lettered in the metal they are named after — Gold Glove in gold, Silver Slugger in silver — but the letters say which is which, so nothing here depends on telling the two apart by colour.

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The WAR columns are worked out on this site — they are not part of the source data, and they will not match Baseball-Reference exactly.

Everything else on this page comes straight from the Lahman database. WAR is our own calculation from those same season lines: fielding is estimated from putouts and assists rather than measured, fielding innings are missing before 1954, and the fielding component is capped. Treat it as a reasonable estimate of value, not as a record. The season tool explains the method in full.

means the value is not in the source for that season, which is not the same as zero. In the Career and Subtotal rows it marks a statistic that cannot be added up across seasons — wOBA and FIP both need league constants that change every year, so we leave them blank rather than invent one. Leagues on this page: AL (American League), NL (National League).

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