Brewers and Greinke Close to a 5/85 extension

[TwinsBrewersWorldSeries]

(AP) Milwaukee, WI - Fresh into their first series of a promising the season, Milwaukee Brewers General Manager Doug Melvin tells ESPN that the Brewers are close to locking up standout starting pitcher Zack Greinke to a five year, $80 million dollar extension that will keep Zack with the Brewers through the 2017 season. Greinke, the 2009 AL Cy Young Award winner with the Kansas City Royals has two years and $27 million remaining on a four year deal he signed prior to the 2009 season with Kansas City. The deal, which includes an option for a sixth season, will pay Greinke $15 million dollars during the 2013, 2014, and 2015 seasons and $17.5 million for the 2016 and 2017 seasons. The deal includes a team option for a 6th season at $20 million dollars (buyout at $5 million).

 

Asked to comment on the deal which could reach $100 million dollars over 6 years, Greinke stated "I was very excited about coming to Milwaukee after the off season moves they made to establish the Brewers as a perennial playoff contender. Now that the Brewers have a core of young talent locked up for several years, I've decided that this is where I want to be to win a World Series. $100 million dollars is alot of money for anybody, and I'm very fortunate to be playing a game I love in a city where I feel I can be very comfortable".

 

The Brewers, who opened the season Thursday with maybe the highest expectations since the 1983 squad opened the season as the reigning American League Champs, hope this extension propels the team to a fast start in what could be the Brewers first trip to the World Series since 1982.

 

 

 

www.ESPN.com/Brewers/HappyAprilFoolsDay2011

[NYChez]

Greinke would be a fool not to take this offer!

[PrinceEatMeat]

It ain't April Fools yet man, you jumped the gun a little bit. I was waiting for the token thread that we usually get. Apparently you got one person though. Nice job.

[pitchleague]

yep, you didn't have me for one second. Plus, you were too early. Nice try though.

[trwi7]

Of course he was early. If he posted it on April 1st everybody would be expecting an April Fools joke.

[PrinceEatMeat]

I still expected it. There's no reason why we would be talking extension with Greinke at this point. Maybe in the offseason, but not now.

[AndrewGruman]

And the AP would never spell Zack wrong.

[Funketown]

This is epicly weak sauce. I'm in Hawaii right now, and it's only 9:43 PM on March 31. Not cool.

[bullox]

This is epicly weak sauce. I'm in Hawaii right now, and it's only 9:43 PM on March 31. Not cool.

I was wondering what happened to Glenn Braggs...

[RightFieldCoder]

I knew it was fake because rumors of potential contract extensions are not allowed on the main board. You should have gone with the old, we traded someone of value for a slight upgrade at something we don't need trick.

[dlk9s]

I might as well just start making April Fool's jokes in February if making them early is the new thing. Someone on another board pulled one yesterday morning. So lame.

[Gobias Industries]

This is epicly weak sauce. I'm in Hawaii right now, and it's only 9:43 PM on March 31. Not cool.

http://twitter.com/humblebrag

[Invader3K]

Didn't buy it, since I hadn't seen anything about it on Twitter yet.

[carniesandrubes]

All the links to the Brewers April Fools ticket offers on this forum already (header, in this sub forum) reminded me what today was and had me looking for the joke. Too easy.

 

Yesterdays game was the joke.

[TwinsBrewersWorldSeries]

Ah, EPIC fail this year http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif Usually I get at-least a few people. Though the time-zones screwed me up this year as well. I guess this is what happens when you get old http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

I should have gone with the "JJ Hardy traded back to Milwaukee"

 

Manny Parra should be stoked! I think this is the first time I haven't traded him on April Fools Day in 4 years!

 

Glad to be back, and glad BREWERS baseball is back. Game on!

[LS Brewer]

I can't believe I fell for this. I was even looking out for April Fools stuff and this one got me. Alarm bells should have gone off when you "quoted" Melvin as discussing a deal before it was done.

[Funketown]

This is epicly weak sauce. I'm in Hawaii right now, and it's only 9:43 PM on March 31. Not cool.

http://twitter.com/humblebrag

Call out accepted.

[BCZF]

dope

[Schlitz001]

Every year I come here on April 1st looking for the fake story......except this year. Well done.

[ilovebeer]

You got me, i saw it this morning at work, we were busy so I didn't have time to read it until now, I was so happy all day. until i read it now.