Editing Barry Zito (section)

==Legacy==
From 2000 through 2004 with the Athletics, Zito, Hudson, and Mulder were known as the "Big Three."<ref>{{cite web |last=Urban |first=Mychael |url=http://oakland.athletics.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20041222&content_id=925052&vkey=news_oak&fext=.jsp&c_id=oak |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202225035/http://oakland.athletics.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20041222&content_id=925052&vkey=news_oak&fext=.jsp&c_id=oak |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 2, 2013 |title=Mailbag: Life after Big Three |work=[[MLB.com|Athletics.MLB.com]] |date=December 22, 2004 |access-date=November 25, 2013 }}</ref> Of the three, Zito had the highest single-season win total and was the only one to win the Cy Young Award.<ref name="MLB"/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hudsoti01.shtml |title=Tin Hudson Statistics & History |work=[[Baseball-Reference.com]] |access-date=November 25, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/muldema01.shtml |title=Mark Mulder Statistics & History |work=[[Baseball-Reference.com]] |access-date=November 25, 2013}}</ref> Zito's .618 [[winning percentage]] is 10th all-time in Athletics history. His 6.896 [[strikeouts per 9 innings pitched]] ranks seventh, his 1,096 strikeouts rank eighth, and his 222 games started rank 10th. Zito also holds a couple more dubious positions on Oakland's list: his 148 home runs allowed rank fifth, and his 65 [[hit by pitch]]es rank fourth (although he trails [[Eddie Plank]], [[Chief Bender]], and [[Rube Waddell]] in that category).<ref name="athletics">{{cite web |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/OAK/leaders_pitch.shtml |title=Oakland Athletics Top 10 Pitching Leaders |work=[[Baseball-Reference.com]] |access-date=November 25, 2013}}</ref> Zito's .821 winning percentage in 2002 is tied with Bender's in 1910 for 10th among Athletics' single-season totals. His 8.608 strikeouts per 9 innings pitched in 2001 rank seventh, and his 205 strikeouts in 2001 are tied for 10th (with [[Dave Stewart (baseball)|Dave Stewart]]'s 1987 total and [[Todd Stottlemyre]]'s 1995 total).<ref name="athletics"/>

Zito's regular-season performance with the Giants was less successful; he went 63–80 with a 4.62 ERA.<ref name=br-stats/> However, he had significantly more playoff success with them. Aided by his contributions in 2010, the team won its first World Series since 1954. Zito did not pitch in the playoffs that year, but did pitch in the 2012 postseason, saving the Giants' season by pitching them to a Game 5 victory in the NLCS against the Cardinals and then outdueling Tigers' ace Justin Verlander in Game 1 of the 2012 World Series. The Giants went on to win their second World Series in three years.<ref name="www.webcitation.org 6Bn5tPi59"/>

As a hitter, Zito batted .102 with 11 RBI. His 35 career hits were all singles, putting him 2nd on the all-time list of most [[plate appearance]]s (418) without an [[extra-base hit]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/tiny/DjX37|title=Batting Season Finder: Spanning Multiple Seasons or entire Careers, From 1871 to 2018, (requiring PA>=300 and XBH=0), sorted by greatest Plate Appearances|work=Baseball Reference|access-date=May 23, 2018}}</ref>