Zack Greinke agrees to six-year, $206 million deal with Arizona Diamondbacks

Greinke will also be backed by a lineup that scored the second-most runs in the National League – only the altitude-aided Colorado Rockies scored more – and features All-Stars in their primes in first baseman Paul Goldschmidt and center fielder A.J. Pollock.

Maybe some people out there weren’t paying attention because, sadly, outside of John McCain’s state lines, who ever pays attention to Arizona?

According to Fox Sports’ Ken Rosenthal, the deal is for six years and $206 million.

Lackey has an 8-5 postseason record.

The Giants are now able to continue shopping, with all that money that they had earmarked for Greinke. The righty who had a down year for the White Sox in 2015 will slot in behind Madison Bumgarner next season, giving the club some depth with Matt Cain and Jake Peavy at the back end of the rotation.

The Los Angeles Dodgers are a remarkable experiment in what happens when you take the financial brakes off a team and see how far you can fly with pure spending. They aren’t Greinke, but the Dodgers can still add a quality arm, or two.

Just a few hours after David Price’s introductory press conference in Boston, the market’s next top free-agent starter agreed to a deal.

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Don’t laugh, and don’t be yammering on about that cold-blooded Greinke leaving Hollywood simply for the money and nothing else. The Diamondbacks were 79-83 and finished third in the NL West.

Greinke can win here. We get that. But it does not make good financial sense to spend $6 on a 20-ounce bottle of Coca-Cola at Dodger Stadium, and fans do it anyway, those fans muttering themselves to sleep Friday night, dogged by a sense of unrequited love from their favorite team. Among the players Bonds will tutor is $325 million slugger Giancarlo Stanton. “I know I can throw the ball as well in October as I do in the regular season”. They are on the outside looking in.

“Will the Dodgers miss the playoffs next year?” the Times asked. He also spoke knowingly about a couple of the game’s biggest contracts at that time and where some upcoming free agents should land, financially. The D-Backs signed a new and very lucrative television contract not too long ago, which surely helped land Greinke.

Now, it’s Kershaw and who else for the Dodgers? Nobody expected Greinke to sign with the D-Backs, because earlier in the week it was said he would either sign with the Los Angeles Dodgers or the San Francisco Giants. Pedro Martinez, Maddux and Dave McNally are the only pitchers with a better season WHIP since 1915. If that seems high, consider that Greinke was 19-3 with a major league-low 1.66 ERA last season.

Greinke was durable, pitching 222 2/3 innings.

Let that settle for a bit.

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The Diamondbacks: They flirted with.

Which is all to say it’s curious that they didn’t pay up for Zach Greinke. So, who are the winners and losers in Major League Baseball, now that he has signed with the Diamondbacks?