Zack Greinke News Archives

With perennial favorites like Jake Peavy, Brandon Webb, and Johan Santana battling through injuries in 2009, finding good reliable starting pitchers to draft for your 2010 Fantasy Baseball team can become a daunting task.

Zack Greinke of the Kansas City Royals and Adam Wainwright of the St. Louis Cardinals were named the top pitchers by the Major League Baseball Players Association.

The players' choice: Albert Pujols again is No. 1 among major leaguers. St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Albert Pujols is Sporting News' 2009 Player of the Year, as selected by a panel of 338 major league players.

The Royals reached outside the organization Thursday in hiring Nick Kenney to replace Nick Swartz as their new head athletic trainer.Kenney joins the organization after spending the previous five seasons as an assistant trainer for the Cleveland Indians.

KCTV5 reports that Kansas Citya s Zack Greinke has been named American League Pitcher of the Year by The Sporting News.

Zack Greinke and Chris Carpenter have been named the American League and National League Bullet Rogan Award winners by the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum.

Kansas City Royals pitcher Zack Greinke has been named American League Pitcher of the Year by The Sporting News online magazine.

One former Royals ace describes current K.C. ace Zack Greinke as a "complete pitcher." Kansas City Royals right-hander Zack Greinke and San Francisco Giants right-hander Tim Lincecum are Sporting News' 2009 pitchers of the year, as selected by a panel of 31 major league general managers and assistant GMs.

THT Awards season finale, part one by John Barten October 13, 2009 Welcome to the column that was almost delayed by a week because of a mix-up by AT&T that took out my home phone and internet for the weekend.

Yes, there is no typo in the title. I heard rumors today that the Milwaukee Brewers have reached an angreement with the Kansas City Royals to acquire the rights of Zack Greinke and unknown minor leaguers for the rights of JJ Hardy, Manny Parra, Mat Gamel, and Angel Salome.

When the White Sox were pulling out their share of low-scoring games in April and May, the starting pitchers politely reminded everyone that their offense would pick up the slack in the future.

When Justin Morneau's season ended, in the second week of September, the Twins needed someone to step up.

The strong September kick by first baseman Billy Butler resulted in his selection Tuesday as the American League player of the month, but the Royals missed a chance to sweep the two major monthly awards when Seattle's Felix Hernandez beat out Zack Greinke as the pitcher of the month.

This is the fourth part of my ALCY series since the season ended. I'm going to attempt to tear apart every facet of the battle between Zack Greinke and Felix Hernandez.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. a ' Royals fans hope to hear some good news on Nov. 17. Thata TMs the day we will know if Zack Greinke will win the American League Cy Young award.

At this time of year, members of the BBWAA can typically be found hunched over stats packs scurrilously reviewing the numbers from the season at hand.

Members of the bullpen didn't need to wish Zack Greinke good luck before the game; Greinke had an easy day against the Twins.

The rotation was strong, the bullpen even better. The cache of young hitters would knock balls all over the spectacularly renovated stadium, the bench multitalented and deep.Finally, after all those losing seasons, this was the year the Kansas City Royals were supposed to turn it around.

The Kansas City Royals seemed to have everything in place to finally end all those years of losing.

There was such a sweet end to 2008 and such a sweet beginning to 2009. Who could have thought everything could turn so sour so quickly? But it certainly did.

If the Tigers fall short of winning the Central Division title they will have nightmares of Jake Peavy.

In 2005, the Kansas City Royals were terrible. They placed 56-106, and were at the bottom of the AL Central.

Detroit -- The Tigers' late-season collapse continued Saturday night with a 5-1 loss to the Chicago White Sox to create a first-place tie in the Central Division with the Minnesota Twins heading into the final game of the regular season.

The Twins knew it wasn't the ideal draw when they learned that they would face Royals ace Zack Greinke twice over the final eight days of the regular season, including Saturday's contest at the Metrodome.

It comes to this for Zack Greinke: His final showcase start in a possible Cy Young season will come today against a surging Minnesota club that now finds itself just one game behind first-place Detroit with two games remaining.

Sitting in front of his locker a day before he pitches, sure, Lenny DiNardo can talk about how Saturday's start is for the Royals but also 29 other teams that might be interested in him for 2010.That thinking has to stop by the time he stands on top of the pitching mound, though.'I know it is in the back of my head,' DiNardo said.

The Kansas City Royals visited Yankee Stadium this week and that can mean only one thing: New York reporters were all over sensational righthander Zack Greinke.

Who has the third-best ERA among Major League pitchers during September? Two American League Cy Young Award candidates -- the Royals' Zack Greinke and the Mariners' Felix Hernandez -- are first and second with ERAs of 0.35 and 0.58. And third is Greinke's teammate, Robinson Tejeda, at 0.81. In fact, Tejeda ranks No.

Joakim Soria recorded his 30th save Wednesday night and joined Dan Quisenberry and Jeff Montgomery as the only pitchers in Royals history to reach that milestone in consecutive seasons.Quisenberry had a four-year run from 1982-85 and Montgomery did it three straight years from 1991-93. Now Soria, who had 42 last year in his first full season as the ...

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.