Predict which starlets he will bed.

How does anybody with marginal abilities to begin with, get motivated to bust ass for a team that is going to have to be extremely lucky to win more than 70 games, and then proceed to be effective? Ain't happenin'.  Zito has made his gazillions in guaranteed money. He's never put in the kind of effort that true greats do in the offseason...especially when your physique is marginal at best anyway. He's been around MLB long enough for the drudgery to offset the benefits of celebrity. There is nothing in his past to indicate that he will make the adjustments to pitch successfully while being surrounded by a combination of old and young garbage. He is no Matt Cain, nor Tom Gordon when Gordon was a starter for the putrid Royals.  The difference is Gordon was hungry, motivated, underpaid, and underrated. Baseball was everything to him. For Zito, baseball is time he has to take off from hanging  out at Maverick's and the nightclubs picking up 19 year-olds.  

He strikes me as a guy who was never motivated purely by the game itself. His focus has always been inconsistent. Which is consistent with guys who rely on the same physical tools they did pre-MLB days.  As if there were two guys doing battle constantly. Surfer Barry vs Pitcher Barry. Enough. Too bad. He had Greg Maddux talent with a William Van Landingham attitude. Now he just has the Van Landingham pout. It won't take long for MSM to start getting on him like they eventually did with Van Landingham.

I think he's out of the rotation by June due to  "lip blisters"

Yeah, it's not gonna be a good year.

IP: 190
ERA: 5.21
K: 112
BB: 110
HRA: 35
SB/9: 0.6

*E's doesn't count.

IP 200
ERA 4.10
K 150
BB 88
HR 22

1st half pitcher:
100 IP
ERA: 5.12
K: 40
BB: 40
HRA: 15
SB: N/A

2nd half pitcher:
IP: 100
ERA: 4.20
K: 63
BB: 30
HRA: 13
SB: Starlets don't go for 30-year-old fading pitchers whose GOOD second half has a sparkling 4.20 ERA.

I think what people tend to forget these days is that Zito has always been a second half pitcher (at least that's what everyone in the MSM tells me, and I don't care to look it up myself).  He'll have a bad first half where we'll all wonder why on earth he got a seven year deal, and how can we possibly get rid of him.  Then he'll have a slightly better second half where we'll still wonder why on earth he got a seven year deal and how can we possibly get rid of him, but we'll still be hopeful that next year he might deliver the Cy Young goods for a full season.  But he won't, and the wheel of time will have gone full circle.

Well, I won't wonder that.  I have zero faith in Zito putting together a full good year.  He's crap, he's not going to be a stellar part of our rotation, and he should have been named our fourth starter, not our Opening Day starter.

Healthy as usual, puts up a solid year...but keeps up a crap K:BB ratio.