Arizona Diamondbacks: Five players who should be traded
By Jason Evans
While the Arizona Diamondbacks are undergoing a reboot, they have to find a way to shed most if not all of the salary of Zack Greinke. The 34-year old made his fourth All-Star team in the past five years, and was a 15 game winner.
The problem with Greinke is his 15 team no-trade clause and his massive salary. Greinke is due to be paid $104 million over the next three seasons. The Arizona Diamondbacks are going to have to eat some of the money on that deal in order to make it more palatable for another team to take, plus, possibly take on a bad contract that team has.
On the plus side, even though Greinke is an older pitcher, he doesn’t rely on velocity, so even as he gets older, he should still be successful.
For a team that isn’t a big market club, having one player take up so much of the payroll doesn’t make sense. Even though they may try and compete this year, having this albatross doesn’t help.
Maybe they can attach another asset to help facilitate a Greinke trade, like the Seattle Mariners did by adding Edwin Diaz into the Robinson Cano trade with the New York Mets.