Zack Greinke Reportedly Willing to Accept Trade to Yankees

[teedubya]

****in' Yankees.

The Yankees still have their hearts set on signing Cliff Lee as a free agent, but their chances at getting a guy to ride shotgun to CC Sabathia might not be up in smoke if he remains with the Rangers.

Royals ace Zack Greinke is reportedly OK with the prospect of a trade sending him to the Yankees. That runs counter to earlier reports that Greinke isn't interested in pitching in the highly pressurized New York market, reports that stemmed from the fact that he has a no-trade clause that includes the Yankees. According to Jeff Passan of Yahoo! Sports, though, Greinke is open to going anywhere with a winning team.

"I wouldn't put it past him to go to New York," Passan's source said. "I don't think he'd rule out anybody. He says he likes New York. Especially because they're winners. He wants to go to a team that wins."

Imagine that, a player who prefers winning to losing. Stop the presses!

Seriously, though, this is eye-opening because it flies in the face of the perceptions about Greinke that have built up over the last couple of years. The no-trade clause mixed with his previous issues with social anxiety disorder and depression made it seem like the atmosphere around a team like the Yankees would make any attempt to add Greinke a non-starter. This would appear to change that equation.

What's more, Passan reports that the Royals have had discussions with the Yankees about a trade that would send Greinke to the Bronx. Obviously such discussions are in very early stages as the Yankees would almost surely prefer signing Lee to spending prospects on a deal for Greinke.

A trade for Greinke, who is 27 and signed for $27 million over the next two seasons, would come at a high price in terms of big-league talent and/or highly regarded prospects. For the Yankees, such a deal would likely have to include Jesus Montero, expected to be the catcher in 2011, and at least one of the top pitching prospects Manuel Banuelos and Dellin Betances.

That's a steep price and there would certainly be other bidders, but the Yankees are likely cheered by the prospect that the cupboard isn't bare if they can't lure Lee to their clubhouse.

http://mlb.fanhouse.com/2010/11/30/z...de-to-yankees/

[Bowser]

Grienke would ****ing own in the national league.

Originally Posted by Chiefs Rool

why I gave up on baseball many years ago

I don't even have a clue who Zach Greinke is.

[Archie F. Swin]

If Zack goes to the Yankees, I think its safe to say we've seen the best season he'll ever have.

[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by Phobia

I don't even have a clue who Zach Greinke is.

He used to play guitar for Ozzy, now he's got his own band called Black Label Society.

[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by Bowser

Grienke would ****ing own in the national league.

Yes he would and despite my "association" with the Mets, they've really worked hard to build their farm system, which new their new manager ran.

He also ran the A's system and pretty much invented Moneyball.

[Reaper16]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

He used to play guitar for Ozzy, now he's got his own band called Black Label Society.

*pictures skinny Greinke with giant beard and long hair*

*laughs*

*realizes that he is basically just picturing himself*

[BaltimoreChief]

yankees have to get everyone's best pitching aka mike mussina. novemeber isn't as important. i personally liked rangers giants. Keep your ace he makes it fun to watch royals baseball.

[Chiefs Rool]

Originally Posted by ChiefsFan5840

Why would you give up on the best professional sport in this country?

I'm just going to assume you're joking and move on.

[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.

[Thig Lyfe]

Originally Posted by Reaper16

*directs SportsRacer to KC's pitching prospects*
*waits*

UH YEAH BUT DO ANY OF THEM HAVE CY YOUNG AWARDS?!!?

[MIAdragon]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

I wasn't aware that you were close friends with Braves "royalty".



Again, I hope that if he goes anywhere, it's to the Mets.

He wants to win, why the **** would he ok a trade to the Mets?

[cookster50]

Originally Posted by BaltimoreChief

yankees have to get everyone's best pitching aka mike mussina. novemeber isn't as important. i personally liked rangers giants. Keep your ace he makes it fun to watch royals baseball.

I love rangers giants also!

[eazyb81]

Yes casual Royals fans, it would be absolutely terrible to trade Greinke's next two years (when we will have no chance at the postseason) for a trade package of young studs that we will control for 6+ years and will arrive in KC at the same time all of our other top prospects come up.

Trading Greinke near his peak value with 2 years remaining on his contract is exactly the correct move. Our window is 2013-2018, when Moose, Hosmer, Myers, Montgomery, Dwyer, Lamb, Colon, etc. all arrive. Adding 3-4 stud prospects to this stable to go for it all during this window is what we need to do.

[alnorth]

Originally Posted by eazyb81

Yes casual Royals fans, it would be absolutely terrible to trade Greinke's next two years (when we will have no chance at the postseason) for a trade package of young studs that we will control for 6+ years and will arrive in KC at the same time all of our other top prospects come up.

Trading Greinke near his peak value with 2 years remaining on his contract is exactly the correct move. Our window is 2013-2018, when Moose, Hosmer, Myers, Montgomery, Dwyer, Lamb, Colon, etc. all arrive. Adding 3-4 stud prospects to this stable to go for it all during this window is what we need to do.

I'd rather re-sign Greinke to a long contract, but if he doesn't want to wait around for our stud prospects to finally mature (understandable), then yeah we should trade him if we can get a great haul. If no one is blowing us away with offers, try again in July and next winter.

[Pitt Gorilla]

Originally Posted by alnorth

I'd rather re-sign Greinke to a long contract, but if he doesn't want to wait around for our stud prospects to finally mature (understandable), then yeah we should trade him if we can get a great haul. If no one is blowing us away with offers, try again in July and next winter.

That's exactly what they're doing, IMO. They would LOVE to sign him long-term, but Zach and his agent control that possibility.