Zack Greinke Reportedly Willing to Accept Trade to Yankees

[Reaper16]

Do some of you not remember that its Greinke himself that wants to leave? The Royals would prefer to keep him.

[DeezNutz]

Originally Posted by Reaper16

Do some of you not remember that its Greinke himself that wants to leave? The Royals would prefer to keep him.

Don't.

There's a perfectly good "baseball is ****ed" rant going on. Facts have no place here.

[Jenson71]

Originally Posted by Reaper16

Do some of you not remember that its Greinke himself that wants to leave? The Royals would prefer to keep him.

But we can't afford him after 2012, can we?

As a slightly more than casual Royals fan, it is disheartening. There's a lot riding on this "young talent in the minors ready to bust out" movement. But this was our Cy Young winner, our ace, our foundation. It's hard to part with a proven great talent for speculation and conjecture.

[alnorth]

Originally Posted by Jenson71

But we can't afford him after 2012, can we?

Yes, we can. This is not about money, its about timing. Zack wants to win now, and we wont be ready for another 2-3 years. Zack has heard about our incredible farm system and how we could possibly win in 2012-2013 and maybe kick ass in 2014-2015. However, he's already waited around for a very long time back when we sucked for years and he cant pitch forever. He wants to play for a sure winner as soon as possible, not patiently wait around to hopefully start winning sometime after his athletic peak.

[alnorth]

Yankee haters, calm down. It wont happen without a 3 or 4-way deal, because the Yankee farm system simply is not good enough. If a trade happens, it is more likely to be with some other team.

[GoHuge]

Originally Posted by alnorth

Yankee haters, calm down. It wont happen without a 3 or 4-way deal, because the Yankee farm system simply is not good enough. If a trade happens, it is more likely to be with some other team.

Exactly this. I talk to Bob Dutton three or four times a year when we come across each other at a merchant's office we both do business with. I actually talked to him last week about this and he said essentially the same thing. Said it would take something like Will Myers and Eric Hosmer plus probably one if not two (DeJesus-type quality) current big league players to make it happen. He said he just didn't see it happening this year. Didn't rule it out, but said the price would be so high (in talent) that he just didn't see a team parting with (or having) the top level prospects it would take to pull it off. He said it would be much more likely to happen next offseason with there being only one year left on the deal because the asking price wouldn't be quite as steep as it is now with a guy like Zack under contract for two years at $13 million per. That is insanely cheap for a guy with his talent.

Decide for yourself, but that all seemed to make pretty good sense to me.