MESA, Ariz. – Barry Zito is back in the news in a new form, the one-time A’s and Giants pitcher landing on the Billboard music charts.
Zito had always been musical, but he didn’t get serious about it until 2015, when he pitched for the A’s Triple-A team in Nashville and took advantage of that city’s booming music scene to both write songs and learn from the masters.
Two Oakland pitchers who were on the Sounds’ roster with Zito that year, Chris Bassitt and Kendall Graveman, both said they well remember his total emersion into music that season.