Barry Zito has been playing guitar for his entire baseball career. For Barry Zito, playing guitar was just a way to pass the time on bus trips and hotel rooms in the minors. The former pitcher for the Oakland Athletics and San Francisco Giants has fully transitioned from a life in baseball to a life making music (he released his first EP of six songs back in January, and it reached No. 39 on the Billboard country chart), and he talked about it in an interview with WBUR, one of Boston's public radio stations.