NY Times · Mar 5, 2019
Zack Greinke Would Rather Not Discuss His Contract
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TEMPE, Ariz. — In most settings, admittedly, it is impolite to ask people about their salary. In baseball, it is a regular part of conversation, especially as the industry absorbs the shock waves of three new contracts worth a combined $890 million.
As lucrative as they were, none of those deals — Bryce Harper to the Philadelphia Phillies, Manny Machado to the San Diego Padres and Nolan Arenado remaining with the Colorado Rockies — carried an average annual value as high as Zack Greinke’s. As he starts the fourth season of his six-year, $206.5 million contract with the Arizona Diamondbacks, Greinke still sits atop the salary pile, at $34.4 million per season.