I stopped in Omaha on my way back from Minneapolis Saturday and got a chance to watch Barry Zito pitch for the Nashville Sounds. His fastball sat 79-82 all game and his curve was coming in at 69-72mph. He absolutely dominated for six innings. He probably threw 80% fastballs and only had a couple hit out of the infield. It was nice to see, though I wonder what his chances of ever making it back to the bigs are having lost that much on the fastball.
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Jamie Moyer was decent 5th starter material for a few years with similar stuff (though much older), but he was much much better than Zito was in his mid 30s. The biggest obvious difference between them was Moyer appears to have had substantially better control at this stage of their respective careers.
I doubt Zito's really capable of being a successful MLBer without better raw stuff than you're describing.
He does not need to be, he continues to live the dream with $125M* in the bank.
* Minus taxes and how much his girlfriends have spent.
