Think a pitcher needs to throw 90+ to be successful? Think again.
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Zito has been around for awhile so his experience and other stuff makes up for loss of velo.
A young pitcher not having a dominate FB will find it much harder to move into ML and stay there before hitters figure him out unless he has Zito stuff. Especially for a starter.
He's something that doesn't come along very often.
You make a good point, BUT. . . . Zito has never had much velocity. And what he does so well is keep batters off balance where they just have a really tough time squaring up if they get the bat on the ball at all. He did it in college and he's doing it now . . .no high velocity needed. 
