Jim Rice: Unimpressed by Zack Greinke

I'm no rocket surgeon when it comes to baseball, but there seems to be a consensus among baseball fans who haven't been lobotomized that Zack Greinke is pretty good at what he does. Some would say impressive. Most would probably just go ahead and say AL Cy Young winner. Jim Rice is having none of this: Zack Greinke didn’t really impress me last night. He pitched well and maybe I caught him on a bad night, but to me he didn’t seem dominant. Greinke has may have the lowest ERA in the AL since Pedro Martinez in 2000, but he doesn’t strike me as the dominant force that Pedro was during his statistical peak. Yes, he's obviously accumulated these numbers with smoke and mirrors. That intangible "How Jim Rice Feels" column was somehow left out on Baseball Reference. Don’t get me wrong, Greinke pitched very effectively but he was not the unhittable beast on the mound that Pedro or Clemens (or even Johan Santana) were during their reign of ...