Anyone who saw the Los Angeles Dodgers pitching staff this year, will tell you that they are lacking an ace. Ned Colletti will need to go after an ace during the offseason, there is no better ace out in the market than Barry Zito. Zito will be heavily touted by many teams, and his asking price is pretty steep. Barry Zito's asking price will be in the range of 75 million dollars over 5 years. That would be a big commitment for the Dodgers to take. Especially if you consider the incredible bad fortune the Dodgers have had with immense contracts (Kevin Brown, Darryl Strawberry, Darren Dreifort, and Dave Goltz to name a few), the Dodgers might be shy to pull the trigger on a deal for Barry Zito. Shy or not, the deal need to be made. Zito without a doubt is the best arm they can acquire. Zito went 16-10 with a 3.83 era, and threw 221 innings. His lifetime record is 102-63, with a 3.55 era. The guy is a winner, and a innings eater. Not to mention he won the 2002 Cy Young award. Put Zito in the Dodgers rotation, and the Dodgers rotation becomes as good as anyone else. There are other pitchers out there, but more of the mediocre variety. I will profile some of them in upcoming posts. But, these are not the guys that we should be looking at, we need a frontline starter, and Barry Zito fills the bill... The Arizona Fall league is underway and there are a couple of Dodger prospects who are participating. The slick-gloved Chin-Lung Hu, Anthony Raglani, Brian Akin, A.J. Ellis, Casey Hoorelbeke, are just some of them. They are part of the Mesa Solar Sox team. I will be updating their progress in league action...BELIEVE IN BLUE!
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