Zack Greinke: Zack Greinke has limited no-trade protection

Now, it’s Kershaw and who else for the Dodgers?

Greinke was the second former AL Cy Young victor to get a mega-contract this week.

Greinke went 19-3, setting a career high for wins, and pitched 222 2-3 innings. Oh, the people still adore Buster, still sing along to “Fire On The Mountain” as MadBum warms up and still melt when Hunter Pence proposes to his girl at Disney World, yet even with three trophies in six seasons, they’ve suddenly taken a side seat to the greatest spectacle in sports and the global miracle who has become bigger than the Pope. He was 51-15 in three years with the Dodgers.

He opted out of his contract with the Dodgers after three seasons, after agreeing to a six-year deal worth$147 million in 2012.

So much for the notion that the bidding for Zack Greinke was down to the rival Dodgers and Giants. Their largest free-agent contracts had been Yasmany Tomas ($68.5 million) and Randy Johnson ($52 million), while their payroll has not exceeded $100 since 2002.

Ken Rosenthal at Fox Sports reports that the Giants are still looking for starting pitching despite signing Samardzija to a deal. The D-Backs reportedly defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Francisco Giants in the sweepstakes for the top pitcher this offseason. The next question is what they do with the rest of that new money they fell into and whether they can get the rest of the pieces to get past the Dodgers and Giants, but in the NL West arms race, at least they kept Greinke out of the hands of their opponents. Greinke was among the Dodger players who were particularly upset that the Dodgers’ front office appeared to punt the trading deadline by picking up fringe players like Mat Latos and Alex Wood to replace the injured Hyun Jin Ryu and Brandon McCarthy, while other contenders added Johnny Cueto, David Price, Cole Hamels.

“There’s a number of different directions we can move”, Evans said.

“I know good things are going to happen to me in October”.

Frans Nielsen and Kyle Okposo scored in the shootout to lift the host Islanders to a 2-1 victory over the St. Louis Blues. First baseman Paul Goldschmidt is one of the best players in the game. That puts Greinke at an average annual value of $34.33 million, which is higher than any pitcher in the history of baseball.

And please don’t insult me and herald Jeff Samardzija, who went 1-8 with a 9.24 ERA after the July trade deadline, as a smarter play at $90 million over five years.

Greinke’s 12 year career he has held a 3.35 ERA/.604 W-L%/1.184 WHIP.

Something else to consider: Kershaw, Anderson, Wood and Ryu are all left-handed. The rumor mill was a-grinding, and all it was spitting out was “Giants vs. Dodgers!!!”

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The Arizona Diamondbacks shocked the baseball world when they nabbed one of the top five free agents on the board on Friday night when they agreed to a deal with Zack Greinke. According to baseball-reference.com, in those situations when Harper resolved an at-bats with zero strikes – when he could look to attack pitches – he posted a. 484 batting average, with a slugging percentage of.960.

Chicago White Sox left-hander Jose Quintana is said to be available as the team looks to retool an offense that was dead-last in the America League in home runs and OPS past year despite playing in a hitter’s park.

“I think as we sit here today, we’re in a much better spot in terms of the depth that we have in triple A than we were previous year, which obviously helps navigate a season”, Friedman said.