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...pitcher has one plus-plus, unhittable, grade 80 pitch, they still need to know how and when to use it. One such pitcher is Zack Greinke. The owner of a nasty slider, the Brewers’ ace racks up strikeouts and swings-and-misses, thanks primarily to his slider....
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FanGraphs
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...rival St. Louis Cardinals going into Game 1 of the NL championship series came from a surprising source: Starting pitcher Zack Greinke, whose bout with social anxiety disorder typically make him one of the least likely players to pop off. Speaking to reporters...
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Baseball Think Factory
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...-- With the game tied in the bottom of the 10th, Zack Greinke was warming up for a potential 11th inning Friday. He was available to pitch in the win-or-go-home situation, but was obviously not Brewers manager Ron Roenicke's first choice out of the bullpen....
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MLB.com
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...Greinke dominated the Reds Sunday, allowing just one run on two hits and three walks while striking out 10 over seven innings in an 8-1 win. The right-hander moved to 15-6 on the year in yet another superb performance. Remarkably, Greinke has given up more...
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Rotoworld.com
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...cap from MASN) What you have there is photographic proof of Zack Greinke smiling. When Greinke came to Milwaukee, it sounded like he was most excited about getting the chance to hit. He was a talented hitter in high school and probably could have made it as...
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The Brewers Bar
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...Greinke hit the go-ahead homer and struck out 10 over seven innings, leading the Milwaukee Brewers to a 6-4 win over the Washington Nationals on Wednesday for their sixth straight victory. Prince Fielder drove in four runs for the Brewers, who are the hottest...
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Globe and Mail
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...pitcher, but he's not what he can be.' And that's what I'm saying right now. He's a good pitcher but he's not the Cy Young Zack Greinke right now. And I guess that's what I'm kind of saying when I say I still think there's something kind of missing." (Updated...
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CBS Sports
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...his first home start for the Milwaukee Brewers this season, Zack Greinke pitched six innings, struck out nine and gave up just two earned runs on the way to a 4-3 Brewers victory over the San Diego Padres. Coming into the game, Brewers manager Ron Roenicke...
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Bleacher Report
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...-- Zack Greinke has completed his rehab, and cut his hair. Now, it is finally showtime. The 2009 American League Cy Young Award winner is scheduled to make his long-awaited first start for the Brewers on Wednesday night against the Braves at Turner Field....
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MLB.com
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...drafted Greinke, hoping that his move to a contender would make him a superstar will finally see what they bargained for. Zack Greinke has missed the entire season so far after fracturing his rib while playing in a pick-up basketball game at the start of spring...
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Examiner.com
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...highly enough of Jake to include him in the deal," Wood said. "It's quite flattering and Jake takes it as a compliment. "I think the Royals have a quality player and person," Wood said. "Zack Greinke is a Cy Young winner who had a phenomenal year."...
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Detroit News Online
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...already knew that Zack Greinke was on the block. However, the rumors and speculation may be coming to an end sooner rather than later. According to Jon Paul Morosi and Ken Rosenthal, Greinke has requested a trade. Like I said, we already knew that there was...
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Rant Sports
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...months ago: ANAHEIM CA - AUGUST 11: Zack Greinke #23 of the Kansas City Royals pitches against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in the sixth inning at Angel Stadium on August 11 2010 in Anaheim California. The Angels defeated the Royals 2-1 in ten innings....
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Bless You Boys
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...to left field make you feel better than having Melky Cabrera do it next season? The point is, we have no idea what makes Zack Greinke tick, and to the extent you read about someone who sounds absolutely certain that he couldn’t hack it in New York, you can...
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MSNBC
http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/12/17/nobody-knows-zack-greinke/
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...aren’t reportedly in on anyone else at the moment. With Cliff Lee’s agreement to sign with Philadelphia last night, the Zack Greinke trade market could heat up with both the Rangers and Yankees – considered the two frontrunners for Lee – left wanting. Obviously,...
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Kings of Kauffman
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... : The Kansas City Star reports that Royals SP Zack Greinke skipped an optional workout Wednesday after having two teeth pulled. He will be OK for Thursday's first official workout. (Updated 02/17/2010). No information available at this time (Updated...
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CBS Sports
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COMMENTARY Zack Greinke's masterpiece salvages something from yet another lost season By JOE POSNANSKI The Kansas City Star JOHN SLEEZER Kansas City Royals starting pitcher Zack Greinke (23) throws during Wednesday's June 17, 2009, baseball game between
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KansasCity.com
http://www.kansascity.com/105/story/1577154.html
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NEW YORK -- Zack Greinke won the American League Cy Young Award on Tuesday, easily beating out Felix Hernandez after a spectacular season short on wins but long on domination.
Greinke went 16-8 with a major league-low 2.16 ERA for the Kansas City
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Myrtle Beach Sun News
http://www.thesunnews.com/sports/story/1172222.html
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It might have been a watershed moment in baseball’s statistical revolution. When the voting for the American League Cy Young Award was announced on Tuesday, Zack Greinke of the Kansas City Royals did not just win. He did it in a landslide.
Keep up with
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The New York Times
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NEW YORK — Zack Greinke won the American League Cy Young Award on Tuesday, easily beating out Felix Hernandez after a spectacular season short on wins but long on domination.
Greinke went 16-8 with a major league-low 2.16 ERA for the Kansas City Royals.
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Asbury Park Press
http://www.app.com/article/20091117/SPORTS/91117126/1002&source=rss
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FILE - This is an Aug. 19, 2009, file photo showing Kansas City Royals starting pitcher Zack Greinke delivering a pitch against the Chicago White Sox in the first inning during, a baseball game in Chicago. Greinke won the American League Cy Young
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Orlando Sentinel
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Zack Greinke was named the 2009 American League Cy Young Tuesday. The first Royal to win the award since 1994. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Zack Greinke capped a memorable 2009 Tuesday, winning the Cy Young Award, presented annually by the
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Royals Review :: A Kansas City Royals Blog
http://www.royalsreview.com/2009/11/17/1161640/zack-greinke-wins-the-2009-cy
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. —The Royals' first Cy Young winner has simple advice for the man expected to become the latest.
"Whatever his pregame meal is," Bret Saberhagen says of Zack Greinke, "just keep on eating it."
Greinke, of course, had a breakout season in
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Kansas.com
http://www.kansas.com/sports/story/1058732.html
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If you ask us, they should just give Roy Halladay the Cy Young award every year, and then let him decide which pitcher in the league he deems most worthy of winning the award. Because you know he'd always pick exactly the right guy, with his trademark
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Sports Blogs
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Kansas City Royals pitcher Zack Greinke is on the short list of American League Cy Young candidates.
The postseason is just heating up but the balloting is over for baseball’s major awards. There are some slam-dunk choices (see Pujols, Albert) and
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Buffalo News
http://www.buffalonews.com/2009/10/11/824429/its-pujols-then-who-knows-for.html
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Anyone
who has read this site in the past year knows how much I love doing
awards columns. And, as I sit here and watch the end of this epic one-game
playoff between the Detroit Tigers and Minnesota Twins to decide the American League Central, it
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The baseball world has now entered upon September and that spurs the annual discussion of who is the most valuable player in each league, who should win the Cy young, and who are this year's rookie of the years. So, with that in mind, here is who I
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Sports Blogs
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In 2005, the Kansas City Royals were terrible. They placed 56-106, and were at the bottom of the AL Central.
Royals "ace" Zack Greinke led the team in innings pitched (183.0), strikeouts (114), and games started (33). Unfortunately, he also led the
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Bleacher Report
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I can't have all three? Boy, you're no fun.
• From the Department of Forecasting: From almost four years ago, this discussion of some of the most impressive young starting pitchers of 2004. The general consensus of the commenters, most of whom are
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The Baseball Analysts
http://baseballanalysts.com/archives/2009/09/this_stuffs_har.php
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This is the first installment of a two-part series.
With only little more than a week left in the regular season, the question has jumped into mind about whom in the American League and National League will win the awards for Rookie of the Year, Coach
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Bleacher Report
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/261961-predictions-for-al-player-awards-why-derek-jeter-is-the-mvp
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Zack Greinke hurled a career-best one-hitter as Kansas City topped Seattle, 3-0, in the finale of a four-game set from Safeco Field.
After striking out a franchise-best 15 batters against the Indians on Tuesday, Greinke (13-8) turned in his
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Pakistan News.net
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That's the essence of the American League Cy Young Award race, with a little more than two weeks left in the regular season.
In the end, will Zack Greinke be penalized because he pitches for the Kansas City Royals?
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FOX Sports
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At the start of the 2009 season, it is almost certain that most people in baseball would never have put Zack Greinke's name on the list for A.L. Cy Young Award candidates. However, for the majority of the season, Greinke has been one of the best
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Bleacher Report
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/254037-zack-greinke-should-win-the-al-cy-young-award
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The Angels will spend the Labor Day weekend in Kansas City playing a four-game series against the Royals. Sam Mellinger covers the Royals for the Kansas City Star — because someone has to.
We checked in with Sam with a few questions on the Royals.
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The Orange County Register
http://fromthedugout.freedomblogging.com/2009/09/04/five-questions-about-the-royals-2/35277/
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Kansas City Royals starting pitcher Zack Greinke throws in the second inning of a baseball game against the Oakland Athletics during a baseball game Saturday, Aug. 8, 2009, in Kansas City, Mo.
Mike Jacobs and Billy Butler each had three hits and
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Miami Herald
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Sure, it may be a homer pick, but you got any better ideas? The only guys who really had a great game were the reporters who made plans for later tonight. There was a four of five inning stretch in the middle of this game that... well, I don't even
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Royals Review :: A Kansas City Royals Blog
http://www.royalsreview.com/2009/7/14/949747/zack-greinke-only-american-league
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Zack Greinke's All-Star: Emily Kuchar Some of us would rather catch a glimpse of Emily Kuchar than the actual baseball tonight. (Photo, emilykuchar.com) More News With no disrespect to any of the guys playing in the All-Star game tonight, what some of
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KansasCity.com
http://www.kansascity.com/stargazing/story/1322753.html
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Zack Greinke and the Kansas City Royals have settled into a routine when it comes to dealing with the multitude of media requests directed at the right-handed flamethrower.
During what began as a dazzling (even historic) 2009
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Boston Herald
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Shin-Soo Choo struck out three times against Zack Greinke, but came through in the tenth with a walk-off single.
The Indians aren't a good team right now, but when Cliff Lee's on the mound, they're an excellent club. Likewise with the Royals and
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Let's Go Tribe
http://www.letsgotribe.com/2009/6/12/906830/game-63-indians-4-royals-3-10
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Well that was different.
As promised, the game recap by slayor, only the brave should click through:
For the 483rd consecutive game, the Royals found yet another innovative way to completely embaress themselves in front of their shrinking but
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Royals Review :: A Kansas City Royals Blog
http://www.royalsreview.com/2009/6/11/906814/the-royals-are-back-to-their
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...the first two months of the season Royals pitcher Zack Greinke was a phenomenon. He seemed to be toying with hitters when he was on the mound, and as a result, he was getting a lot of attention for it. Of course when you start off your season with an 8-1 record...
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AOL Sports
http://mlb.fanhouse.com/2009/06/06/zack-greinke-is-human-after-all/
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Kansas City, Mo. -- It began well enough: With a run in the first inning off Zack Greinke, an honest-to-goodness run to break his streak of 19 scoreless innings against the Tigers.
But there was way too much goodness in Greinke for them to overcome
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Detroit News Online
http://www.detnews.com/article/20090527/SPORTS0104/905270376/-1/rss
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The year's surprise pitching story -- Kansas City's Zack Greinke -- makes his 10th start of the season tonight, when the Royals host the Tigers in the second game of three from Kauffman Stadium.
Greinke has been nothing short of remarkable through nine
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Detroit Free Press
http://www.freep.com/article/20090526/SPORTS02/90526089/1048/rss03
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Two interrelated factors have pushed Zack Greinke into otherworldly status this season: a rise in his strikeout rate and a steep decline in his home runs allowed. While the rise in strikeouts is an entirely 2009 occurrence, Greinke's batted ball data
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Royals Review :: A Kansas City Royals Blog
http://www.royalsreview.com/2009/5/26/888183/a-key-for-zack-greinke-eliminating
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Kansas City ace Zack Greinke got a no decision Thursday night — his first of the year — but continued to rewrite live-ball era pitching records with his start to the season. Greinke is 7-1 and shredding the American League with a 0.82 ERA. That is the
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Sports Blogs
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The Royals are on a six game skid (ah, reality) and in a three-way tie for first place in the AL Central (unreal). Tonight, David Glass' golden goose, Zack Greinke, takes the mound before a damn-near sold out crowd. Will Zack Greinke pull the Royals
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Kansas City The Pitch
http://blogs.pitch.com/plog/2009/05/save_us_zack_greinke.php
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Royals Review :: A Kansas City Royals Blog
http://www.royalsreview.com/2009/5/12/873346/could-zack-greinke-be-worth-his
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...Zack Greinke gave up one run and four hits in eight innings Saturday against the Angels. In another outstanding start, Zack Greinke gave up one run and four hits in eight innings Saturday against the Angels. Pitcher walked away from the game in 2006. Now he's...
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Los Angeles Times
http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/sports/~3/U_F3joN9nFw/la-sp-shaikin10-2009may10,0,5762438.story
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Last season brought Josh Hamilton and his remarkable comeback from drug abuse. This season, Kansas City righthander Zack Greinke has become the majors' feel-good story three years after he left the game because of an anxiety disorder.
White Sox
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Sporting News
http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=547243
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He’s the complete package with velocity and life on his plus-plus fastball, and an array of late breaking secondary pitches that has hitters in a tizzy trying to make contact. His curveball comes out of the hand looking like a fastball, but travels to
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Baseball Think Factory
http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/files/newsstand/discussion/breaking_down_royals_pitcher_zack_greinke/
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