SAN DIEGO – Zack Greinke thought back through the starting rotations of his career – those dominant Dodgers teams, the year he went to the postseason with the Brewers, even the half-season he spent with the Angels – and he couldn’t come up with a group of starters, one through five, better than this year’s Diamondbacks team.
“There’s really not a weak link,” Greinke said.
It might be more than the best rotation of Greinke’s career.
It might be the best in Diamondbacks history.
The Diamondbacks had a rotation ERA of 3.43 entering Monday's game in San Diego, a mark that’s a quarter-run better than the next-best group, from 2002, which posted a 3.