The question did not seem unreasonable. Are the Dodgers trying to bring back Zack Greinke?
"That's the buzzword that sends me running out of this room," Dodgers General Manager Farhan Zaidi said Tuesday.
Greinke is a free agent. There can be no tampering.
No matter, at least not to Andrew Friedman, the Dodgers' president of baseball operations. The players' union might frown on the greatest-spending team in sports history saying it does — or does not — want to spend on Greinke.
"It affects his market," Friedman said.
That, and the folks in Dodgers management would prefer you had no idea what they might be up to, if only in an effort to keep every other team guessing.