Dodgers Sign Greinke!

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http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2012/12/dodgers-to-sign-zack-greinke.html

[ayebatter]

Sweet I knew this would work.

They'll need to sign Hamilton and move Ethier and a couple of prospects for Shields. Because I think Greinke goes back to Texas.

[GiantsFan14]

$235MM payroll for next year so far. Insane.

[Halo Homers]

It just keeps getting more expensive to sign free agents, which makes a team with a strong minor league system the only certain way to compete year end and year out, unless you can afford 300M payroll per year, and even then nothing is assured.

[Grounded Polo]

It just keeps getting more expensive to sign free agents, which makes a team with a strong minor league system the only certain way to compete year end and year out, unless you can afford 300M payroll per year, and even then nothing is assured.

+1, Greinke's salary is just insane, no way he's worth that kind of money but I guess it's all relative because if the Dodgers can now afford a $300 mill payroll, they have a bottomless pit of money to overpay for the guys they want. Do Kershaw and Strasburg get 10 years/275 mill when they hit free agency?

[Halo Homers]

It just keeps getting more expensive to sign free agents, which makes a team with a strong minor league system the only certain way to compete year end and year out, unless you can afford 300M payroll per year, and even then nothing is assured.

+1, Greinke's salary is just insane, no way he's worth that kind of money but I guess it's all relative because if the Dodgers can now afford a $300 mill payroll, they have a bottomless pit of money to overpay for the guys they want. Do Kershaw and Strasburg get 10 years/275 mill when they hit free agency?

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Add Verlander to Kershaw and Strassburg and you have the first three pitchers who will get 8yr / 200M dollar deals at least.

[bigh0rt]

apparently they also just signed Ryu...

[ensanimal]

This was on Rotoworld in the blurb about the Dodgers signing Ryu Hyun-Jin......

According to Yahoo's Jeff Passan, the Dodgers payroll is now higher than the GDP of at least four countries.

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Ryu looks like the lovechild of Bartolo Colon and Hideki Matsui.

[kab21]

So the Dodgers are singlehandedly trying to drive MLB inflation. I've never liked big spenders but this recent binge could potentially throw the competitive balance even more out of whack.