team power rankings. The chances that he will keep this up are incredibly small.

He does have an advantageous schedule upcoming, with a game against the No. 27 Brewers and then two matchups against the currently dead-last Padres as his next three projected starts. However, given his historical numbers, I don't know if I can trust him in even those games. Barry Zito is strutting around as a living, breathing outlier, and one of these days, he'll rediscover his true identity. Thus sayeth the stats.