{"id":1463,"date":"2013-02-25T21:27:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T02:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=1463"},"modified":"2013-02-25T21:32:44","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T02:32:44","slug":"zack-greinke-simply-wanted-the-most-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/02\/25\/zack-greinke-simply-wanted-the-most-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Zack Greinke simply wanted the most money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1464 aligncenter\" alt=\"zackgreinke\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/02\/zackgreinke.jpg\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/02\/zackgreinke.jpg 660w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/02\/zackgreinke-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Zack Grienke wanted one thing during free agency, money. In fact Greinke did not care about where he landed as long as the dollar amount was the highest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s obviously the No. 1 thing,&#8221; Greinke <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/blog\/jon-heyman\/21767425\/honest-greinke-who-admits-was-top-consideration-made-texas-offer-before-la-deal\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>. \u201cI could play for the worst team if they paid the most \u2026 If the last place team offers $200 million and the first-place team offers $10, I&#8217;m going to go for the $200-million no matter what team it was.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With new ownership in place the Dodgers went on a spending spree this winter. Greinke was signed to a six-year deal worth $147 million.<\/p>\n<p>With two teams left in the bidding the right hander had two similar deals on the table. Greinke reportedly spoke with the Rangers and gave them a take-it-or-leave-it offer. While the 29-year-old has not talked about that offer it is safe to assume that the dollar amount was higher.<\/p>\n<p>Greedy or honest?<\/p>\n<p>Greinke went 15-5 with a 3.48 ERA in 2012 between the Milwaukee Brewers and the Los Angeles Angels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zack Grienke wanted one thing during free agency, money. In fact Greinke did not care about where he landed as long as the dollar amount was the highest. \u201cIt&#8217;s obviously the No. 1 thing,&#8221; Greinke said. \u201cI could play for the worst team if they paid the most \u2026 If the last place team offers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[135,213],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-1463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-zack-greinke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1463"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}