Not just a good article on Zito but the effect seeing your talent, your future, your life broken down into numbers on pages. Your faith in yourself weakens and you become the kid who just learned there is no such thing as Santa Claus.

[Zito] would never again be able to feel his way through his life; now he could only calculate the value of it, when all people ever had to do was watch him throw his curveball and they would know exactly what he was worth.