How Close Is Giants Lefty Barry Zito to Reclaiming Ace Status?

The San Francisco Giants had one of the biggest albatross contracts in baseball on their hands for a while there. It belonged to Barry Zito, and it was a doozy.

Note the past tense here.

Zito was an albatross for the first five-plus years of his deal, but not so much anymore. Given the way he's pitched ever since the beginning of last August, now we have to wonder whether the Giants are finally getting what they thought they were buying for $126 million back in December of 2006: an ace.
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