Z melts down

mabey they'll trade him(I DON'T WANT HIM)!

Hopefully they'll trade Barrett so that he can quit abusing us.

And I'll take Big Z in a second.

"when you suck at baseball, just hit people in the face"

is--and probably always will be--a head case. He'll never match his potential.

By the looks of this its a mechanical issue for Zambrano. He has been awful so far this year. His K rate is down, BB rate is up, and his GB% is also down which is really bad since he relies so much on his hard sinker. If its simply an arm slot/mechanical issue, then no wonder pitching wiz Rothschild either hasn't picked up on it or can't fix it. It's sad really, Rothschild has now had three of the best young arms of this early century, and failed to spot issues with them. I have no idea why Piniella retained him. I actually would really like to have Zambrano with the BOB, like someone said earlier, I don't think it's as much a temper as it is a fiery passion for the game (today doesn't help that case though). He would seem like a perfect candidate for the Cards with his high GB rate, but the Cards don't have the resources and the Cubs have no reason to deal him to us. But he would be worth a large free agent deal in my opinion, if we KNOW we can fix his mechanical issues. Only red flag is the piles of Pitcher Abuse Points he racked up under the Cubs regime. But Duncan and LaRussa have always been good about keeping their abuse points low and Zambrano just seems like a logical fit to me...at some point.