How close was Zack Greinke to returning to the Dodgers?
Asked that question Friday at a news conference with the Arizona Diamondbacks, Greinke smiled.
“Without getting too detailed, we were minutes away from going to a different team,” Greinke said. “It was that close.”
He was presumably talking about the Dodgers.
Greinke acknowledged that until the Diamondbacks became a late entrant in the sweepstakes to sign him, he was negotiating with only two teams, believed to be the Dodgers and San Francisco Giants.
When Greinke was informed by his agent that the Diamondbacks had called, he said, “It got me excited.