Wednesday, May 6, 2009

This guy is good

His name is Zack Greinke.
He pitches for Kansas City. Greinke won five games in April. His ERA was 0.50. He struck out 44 and walked eight and pitched two complete games. He and Fernando Valenzuela of the Dodgers are the only two pitchers in history to not allow an earned run in their first four starts in the big leagues.
Pretty good numbers.
Two downsides come with this. Kansas City is destined never to appear on a televised baseball game (free TV) near you because MLB's broadcast partners think we need to see Boston, the Yankees, the Mets, the Cubs and the Phillies – or some combination thereof – each week.
The other is a potential agent in waiting – Scott Boras. If Boras can gets his mitts on young Mr. Greinke, then Mr. Greinke will go where the top dollar happens to be at the time.
Because baseball's money is in such markets as New York and Boston, Greinke would appear every other Sunday night on ESPN, that's for sure.

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