Arizona Diamondbacks sign Zack Greinke

[ineedsleep212]

It feels like that Price deal just added 5 mill per year to these elite pitchers.

 

[No..Money..Mo..Problems]

3 of the top 10 players in baseball with Greinke, Pollock and Goldschmidt

I'll give you 2 of those Pollock is good but he ain't there yet

 

[WaddupDoe!]

 

[Doctor Wily]

Get paid NOW before that tv contract bubble bursts

It ain't bursting with all that old money in baseball

 

[Remote]

Lance Lynn is underrated if anything. And Lackey is a very good pitcher with good peripherals. You're kinda talking out of your ass bro.

Lance Lynn had an adjusted FIP damn near 4.00 last year, and it was 3.80 the year before.
He's a lucky pitcher that hasn't given up as many homers as he would in almost any other environment.
Against winning ballclubs last year, his ERA was almost twice as high.

Is he a complete scrub? No.
But he damn sure isn't a sub-3.00 ERA pitcher either. He just isn't.

And as for Lackey, last year was a fluke. He never once posted a sub-3.00 ERA in his entire career and he does so suddenly at age 36? This is a guy who hasn't been better than 3.50 in 7 years.

I get that St. Louis and Wrigley are both major pitchers parks, but I don't see either of them sustaining it for very long.

The rest of the roster is seeing some trouble.
Molina is effectively done as a hitter.
Heyward and his .800 OPS are gone.
I don't know how much longer they can ride with fat Jhonny Peralta at short, no matter how many homers he hits.
and Matt Holliday's OPS has been declining in St. Louis for 6 straight years.
Grichuk has potential but they'll have to be careful that he doesn't strike out 200 times next year.

I do believe in Carlos Martinez and Michael Wacha though.
And a healthy Wainwright could change things.

But Pittsburgh and Chicago don't have to deal with this many questions.
St. Louis is a wildcard team, maybe. I know that sounds blasphemous to say of a 100-win team last year. But Pittsburgh won 98 games and Chicago won 97, and their teams are largely unchanged.
STL needs A LOT of things to go right in 2016.

 

[Brozay]

Dave stewart buggin,6 years damn near 200 mil for a 32 year old

@Brozay that Lester contract don't look that bad now does it what arrieta gonna get on the open market

Nah, it's looking better every mega deal that gets signed. Arietta and Sale both gonna break the bank