Zambrano wants trade?

[Ace]

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They do?
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Sure. Not this season - over the past like 4 or 5. There was a whole big thing about it a few weeks ago.
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Last 5 seasons - 3.26, 3.41, 3.95, 3.91, 3.91. Without looking it up I'd guess he isn't in the top 5 in any of those seasons, let alone all of them put together.
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5th in 2006. I'd also add that a lot more than ERA determines top 5.
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I'm also pretty sure that if a guy is, for example, 7th in the league in ERA for each of 5 straight seasons, he's probably going to be in the top five for those 5 seasons total.

Regardless, I'm quite confident that whatever the discussion that was had here and in the media a couple months/weeks/whatever ago concluded that Z has been a top 5 pitcher in the NL over the course of the last 5, 6, however many seasons. I believe it was a Kaplan article that started the whole thing.