Zack Greinke, Diamondbacks reportedly agree to deal

The sellout streak is a source of enormous internal pride. A person with knowledge of the deal tells The Associated Press that free agent Greinke and the Arizona Diamondbacks have reached agreement on a six-year contract.

Don’t blame baseball boss Brian Sabean. The team did not say what kind of cancer the former A’s general manager has. Financial terms have not been confirmed, though USA Today reported Greinke will receive $195 million over the six years.

Greinke always has been a little different, introspective and aloof.

Meanwhile, three National League powers – the Los Angeles Dodgers, San Francisco Giants and St. Louis Cardinals – have whiffed on filling glaring rotation needs. At that time, it was the biggest contract given to a pitcher in baseball history.

That tops even the highest projections for Greinke, paying him a record average of $34.4 million a season, blowing away Price’s $31 million.

Zobrist, who turns 35 in May, is reportedly looking for a four-year deal in the range of $60 million.

I’m never paying the price for a pitcher after an otherworldly season, and Greinke’s case is no different, especially when you consider how fortunate he was in 2015. Johnny Cueto, Jeff Samardzija, Scott Kazmir and Mike Leake are the top names still available. Last we saw Leake, he was struggling down the stretch as the July pickup of Sabean and Evans.

The limiting factor in recent years has been pitching, and Greinke certainly provides a monster boost there.

Obviously, the Giants are doing something wrong. And pitcher Jon Lester. “I’ll leave the voting process up to you guys”. The Diamondbacks are not in a larger market. Arizona s top tax rate is just 4.54 percent. So the Giants are going to be a slave to income taxes? Greinke easily led baseball in this metric (again, minimum 150 innings pitched), beating out newest Cubs’ starting pitcher John Lackey. But they do want to reinforce their rotation, which may require trading an everyday player.

Arizona’s offer eclipsed that of Los Angeles’, Greinke’s original team. But it’s clear that ownership, along with CBO Tony La Russa and GM Tony Stewart, have decided that the next few seasons represent the team’s best chance of success, with an MVP candidate in Paul Goldschmidt, the blossoming of A.J.

For the $32 million a year they were offering Greinke, they could afford two starting pitchers.

The Dodgers are in recovery mode now, not a place they’re used to hanging out.

The Diamondbacks were not expected to compete for Greinke, who along with David Price was considered the prize free agents of the winter. They could use one starter for sure and likely two. Or perhaps more than one. Now, a new arena is going up down the street from AT&T Park.

“San Francisco is my home, ” he said, “but this is the opportunity that came up”. Pollock and a number of rising young players. According to oddsmakers from online sports book Mybookie.ag, the Diamondbacks have gone from 40/1 to 25/1 to win next year’s World Series.