Thanks to Baseball-Reference.com's Play Index Pitching Season Finder, we can compare the stats of these two 26-year old pitchers this season (to date): 

  Cnt Player            Year   IP  ERA+  SO Age Tm  Lg  G  GS CG SHO GF  W  L  W-L% SV  H   R   ER  BB   ERA  HR  BF   AB  2B 3B IBB HBP  SH  SF GDP  SB CS Pk BK WP   BA   OBP   SLG   OPS  OPS+  Pit  Str 
 +----+-----------------+----+-----+----+---+---+---+--+---+--+--+---+--+--+--+-----+--+---+---+---+---+------+--+----+----+--+--+---+---+---+---+---+---+--+--+--+--+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+----+----+ 
     1 Daisuke Matsuzaka 2007 184.1  103 179  26 BOS AL  29 29  1   0  0 14 12  .538  0 175  91  91  70   4.44 23  788  701 38  2   1  12   3   2  14  16  7  0  0  4  .250  .327  .408  .735   91 3125 1997 
     2 Carlos Zambrano   2007 190    107 163  26 CHC NL  30 30  1   0  0 15 12  .556  0 167  95  90  92   4.26 21  821  708 33  4   3  13   5   3  17   3  2  1  0  3  .236  .333  .383  .716   87 3282 2009

Pretty close to each other, huh?  It will be interesting to see how both their careers move forward after this season.

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