Jon Heyman @JonHeymanCBS
Greinke gets limited no trade provision in #dbacks deal

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Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.

Im sure its been posted somewhere but look again at Greinke's #'s at Chase!

Also still waiting to find out more as to how this went down. Who convinced ownership to pull the trigger?

If the cost of Chapman is 2 mid level prospects... why not?

I saw Greinke pitch at Chase once. Not one of his better outings.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes ... 5260.shtml

usa today nightengale has article adressing it. apparently took all of 12 hours from concept to kk giving.go.ahead to.execution

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Good depth often has to come from within, in the form of younger talent. Depth is hard to build overnight, but it’s easy to deplete. Jeff Sullivan

I was thinking the exact same thing today. Surely Inciarte + a B-level prospect would've been a much better offer?

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Greinke good, uniforms bad.

Found it but it still doesnt really address who convinced him.

Does mention DH and Stew though.

Also mentions that we are getting 2 Billion not the 1.5 Billion that was previously reported for our local TV deal.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ml ... /76893346/

I have to admit I really like the way Stew and TLR and getting things done. We needed an ACE pure and simple and not only did we get one but we took a huge DBACK nemesis from our hated enemy. This is a noticeable shift from the previous administration who only wanted to employ cookie cutter measures while still spending tons of money.

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"Right at Peralta in left, it's over his head and gone!" 7 rows back, that was our great PBP broadcaster Steve B.

Greinke will wear #21

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Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.

I hope that there was some number crunching/real analysis done and some strategy (which with a player of his caliber shouldn't be too hard to do), and they simply just didn't back into this

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So-cratz - "The only true wisdom consists in knowing that you know nothing".

Here are the details you seek...

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Jon Heyman @JonHeymanCBS
Greinke gets $18M signing bonus in $206.5M deal. It's spread out; still good move as signing bonuses r protected in lockouts

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Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.

Thanks TAP. Here are three great reads from LA LA land about the deal.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-gre ... story.html

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-dia ... story.html

http://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers/l ... story.html

Damn

$62.5M in deferred salaries

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/greinkes-d ... --mlb.html

we knew about the 60 million plus in deferred money on Friday I guess somepeople dont read this thread

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Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.

Ha I missed it. Was busy friday night when story broke.

Has this been mentioned?

The Greinke Suitcase incident, first chronicled in author Molly Knight's book published last summer entitled The Best Team Money Can Buy, occurred in mid-September 2014 during a 10-day trip to San Francisco, Colorado and Chicago.

The Dodgers had scheduled their traditional rookie "hazing"—dressing the first-year players up in ridiculous-looking outfits—for the trip from Colorado to Chicago, but the Rockies whipped the Dodgers, 16-2, in the series finale there, and by the time they landed in Chicago, patience among some players had grown thin.

On the bus trip from the airport into the city, some veterans ordered the bus stopped and the rookies to disembark and fetch pizza from a shop off the street. Gonzalez, pitcher Jamey Wright and another veteran or two accompanied the rookies into the pizza joint and, when the wait became longer than expected, some veterans on the bus became angry and wanted the bus to continue along.

Puig was outside of the bus looking for his luggage in the holding bay underneath and, after Puig ignored several requests to close the bay door, Greinke hopped off the bus, grabbed Puig's suitcase and tossed it onto Michigan Avenue. According to the book, Puig went at Greinke and was restrained by veteran reliever J.P. Howell.

Human beings......conflict....drama......ALERT THE MEDIA !! LOL

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Good depth often has to come from within, in the form of younger talent. Depth is hard to build overnight, but it’s easy to deplete. Jeff Sullivan

Yeah, much ado about nothing.

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KC

http://www.azcentral.com/story/sports/m ... 9b89474242

Larry King can’t believe what he’s seeing as the rival Arizona Diamondbacks steal the winter headlines — and the Dodgers’ Cy Young Award runner-up.

“I can’t stand what we’re doing,” King told USA TODAY Sports. “Those people in the Dodger front office, they think they’re still in Tampa. This is Los Angeles. We’re in the second-largest market in the country. We lead baseball in home and road attendance. And we haven’t won a World Series since 1988."

"My wife talks almost every day to Zack’s wife,” King said. “They loved it here. They wanted to say here. But (the Dodgers) won’t go to a sixth year on his deal and let him walk away. They will rue that day for the next six years."

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“Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.”
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More detailed account how the deal went down.