Unfortunately, the Twins weren’t able to take advantage of a number of opportunities to beat baseball’s best pitcher, Mr. Zack Greinke yesterday and take the sweep that I thought they would need. Fortunately, the Tigers continued to play mediocre baseball and barely put up a fight in Chicago, leaving the Twins two games back with [...]
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Via Bleacher Report
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September 27, 2009
Originally written on September 22
Zack Greinke was ready to quit baseball. He was a 22-year-old phenom and hated the attention that came along with the pressure to succeed amidst high expectations. He’d had enough.
The lanky righthander was drafted out of high school by the Kansas City Royals in 2002. He wasn’t supposed to be, though. Before the 2002 MLB Draft, Allan...
Via Motown Sports Revival
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September 28, 2009
Zack Greinke has been the best pitcher in the American League since April. That should be obvious to anyone with or without a cerebral cortex. What wasn't obvious, at least until the last three weeks, was whether Greinke would win the AL Cy Young Award. As of September 16, he had just 13 wins which is three shy of the bare minimum number required to garner serious consideration...
Via Bleacher Report
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September 27, 2009
Kansas City Royals ace Zack Greinke isn’t leading the American League in wins. He isn’t second, third, fourth, fifth, or even sixth; he’s seventh. He is 15-8 for a Royals team that is last in the American League Central with a record of 63-92.
CC Sabathia has 19 wins for the New York Yankees, a team that will win 100 games this season. Likewise, Justin Verlander...
Via Bleacher Report
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September 27, 2009
Kansas City Royals ace Zack Greinke isn’t leading the American League in wins. He isn’t second, third, fourth, fifth, or even sixth; he’s seventh. He is 15-8 for a Royals team that is last in the American League Central with a record of 63-92. CC Sabathia has 19 wins for the New York Yankees, a team that will win 100 games this season. Likewise, Justin Verlander...
Via Miami Herald
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September 28, 2009
All this Cy Young talk is wearing on Zack Greinke. Even when it comes from the hometown fans, Kansas City's attention-shy ace doesn't want to hear it.
Via Big League Stew
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September 28, 2009
Welcome to 'Duk's Dozen, a streamlined selection of 12
morning-fresh links and items to start your baseball
day. It welcomes your email submissions or Twitter tips. 1. Jeff Passan details the Sunday drama of Zack Greinke(notes) v. Joe Mauer(notes). Y! Sports2. I love that Greinke's ERA in September — .35 — looks like a misprint. Razzball3. Carlos...
Via NY Daily News
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September 29, 2009
Zack Greinke has not pitched against the Yankees this season, but the Kansas City ace has an opinion about which AL Central contender the Bombers should prefer not to face when the playoffs open next week.
Via kansascity.com
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September 30, 2009
The beauty, of course, is that the line is unrehearsed. Has to be.
Because if Zack Greinke gave any thought to what questions the New York reports would ask and how he would answer them, it would go against the M.O. he's established since arriving in Kansas City five years ago.
"I don't want to pitch for New York in the playoffs," he told the people there. "...
Via Joe Posnanski > Curiously Long Posts
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September 28, 2009
A couple of big events coming up this week for The Machine (Amazon – B&N – Rainy Day for autographed copies).
– Tuesday night in Kansas City, 7 p.m., I’ll be doing my Blog Event at the Unity Temple on the Plaza. Topics of conversation may include: The Big Red Machine, Pixifoods, Zack Greinke*, the movie [...]
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http://twinsfix.com/2009/09/september...
