The Los Angeles Dodgers were never going to replace Zack Greinke. That may as well have been a decree from the baseball gods.
He's one of the best right-handers in the game, after all, and MLB's reigning ERA king. Even with a free-agent market as deep as this one, once Greinke rode off into the Arizona sunset, that was that.
Still, Los Angeles and President of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedman had to act. And they did, adding a pair of arms in southpaw Scott Kazmir and Japanese import Kenta Maeda, whose deal is expected to be made official in the coming days, per Bill Shaikin of the Los Angeles Times (more on that in a moment).