Barry Zito has written a book. And since every book has to have a hook, this revelation:
Zito rooted against the Giants, his own team, the organization that was in the process of paying him $126 million, during the 2010 postseason.
The Barry Zito story is all about context. He joined the A’s in 2000, one of the Three Aces along with Tim Hudson and Mark Mulder. He was the American League Cy Young Award winner at 24, after which he settled into a confounding existence trapped between over- and underachievement. The mixed bag allowed others to draw their own conclusions.