According to Ken Rosenthal, the Arizona Diamondbacks have signed Zack Greinke to a six-year $206 million contract with deferrals, which means it will be lower than present day value of contract.
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The sources spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because there hadn’t been an official announcement.
Over a five-year period that nearly seems impossible, the Giants managed to win the smart game and the big trophies three times. Chief operating officer Jeff Wilpon said in a statement the cancer is “very treatable” and doctors are “optimistic about his full recovery”.
Shapiro, a former general manager with Cleveland, became Toronto’s new president in November. Fox first reported an agreement. The man he was most often compared to last season, Greg Maddux, went 105-55 with a 3.05 ERA and averaged 228 innings a year in his age 32 through 37 seasons.
Greinke will join Paul Goldschmidt – NL MVP runner-up – and A.J. Pollock as the lynchpins for Arizona’s future. They already know what they’re going to get from him. While they missed out on Greinke, that might not be a bad thing, considering the cost and length of term that they would have had to dole out. After revealing futuristic uniforms for 2016 earlier this week, Arizona found a star to wear one.
A thinking-man’s pitcher with top-end stuff, Greinke, then, has thought his way through his career much as he does a start.
Greinke is 142-93 with a 3.35 ERA and 8.1 strikeouts per nine innings in 12 major-league seasons with the Dodgers, Kansas City Royals and Milwaukee Brewers. “He’s a good pitcher, one of the best in the league, so you’re going to get asked about him”.
The free-spending Dodgers have already reportedly turned their sights to Cueto and the Giants still have room to pursue another starting pitcher. He was neck-and-neck with Clayton Kershaw as the Dodgers’ co-ace, gave them certainty at the top of the pitching order and the guarantee they’d essentially be in 66 or so of the games he and Kershaw started.
In three seasons with the Dodgers, he was 51-15 with a 2.30 ERA and served as the right-handed complement to Kershaw, the consensus No. 1 pitcher in baseball. The Giants, who’d built those titles on pitching, desired a 1B to Madison Bumgarner’s 1A, face a possible career downturn of Matt Cain and the free agency (and career downturn) of Tim Lincecum.
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“I think I was just saving all my postseason wins for the Red Sox”, Price said on Friday during his introductory news conference in a Fenway Park function room filled with championship memorabilia. Matt Cain was slowed by further elbow issues after undergoing surgery late in the 2014 season, while right-hander Tim Hudson retired and Mike Leake and Ryan Vogelsong are free agents.
