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zack-greinke

Your American League Cy Young Award Winner.

Good story, better pitcher. Congrats to Zach Greinke.

(Photographs via Sports Illustrated.)

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9 comments

1 Dimelo   ~  Nov 17, 2009 4:27 pm

Wow, not even one vote for Kei Igawa. He definitely had a good year in Scranton. There's always next year for the Kei man. So sad, so sad....

2 rbj   ~  Nov 17, 2009 4:29 pm

Congrats to Zack, and for bouncing back. Though I suspect he wouldn't do well in the bright lights of NY.

3 Mattpat11   ~  Nov 17, 2009 4:45 pm

Are those pictures from the SI column? I may be the only human being on earth who didn't think Greinke came off well at all in that story. He really seems like a bit of an ass, to be honest.

That said, he deserved the award unanimously.

4 Alex Belth   ~  Nov 17, 2009 5:25 pm

I doubt that he's a terribly bright and/or interesting guy. Yeah, those pictures are from SI, I should have credited them. My bad. Nice shots.

5 Mattpat11   ~  Nov 17, 2009 6:47 pm

The thing that always bothered me is that some teammate came up to him and asked if he'd play in a charity golf outing, and Grienke responds with something like "No, why the hell would I do that?" The author, who I think was Joe Pos, found it hilarious, I thought he looked like a dick.

6 RagingTartabull   ~  Nov 17, 2009 7:23 pm

[5] Yeah but wasn't that when he was going through the whole social anxiety thing? It's a dick move, but he was definitely having some issues at the time.

7 The Hawk   ~  Nov 17, 2009 7:50 pm

Well-deserved!

8 RIYank   ~  Nov 17, 2009 9:52 pm

[5] [6] I actually thought it was Posnaski who looked like a dick. But that may be because I am so strongly predisposed to think he's a dick under all circumstances.

9 Mattpat11   ~  Nov 18, 2009 12:35 am

[6] I thought he was suggesting that it happened this year during the writing of the article.

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