Zack Greinke

What a difference a year makes.

Lavishing Zack Greinke with a six-year, $206.5 million contract hasn't turned the Arizona Diamondbacks into contenders. But if they ever want to get out from under that contract, they'll reportedly be able to find a suitor within their own division.

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The Arizona Diamondbacks' big offseason acquisition has gotten off to a so-so start this season and is now on the shelf, as right-handed ace Zack Greinke suffered an injury to his oblique. 

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Zack Greinke is renewing acquaintances during his highly anticipated return to Los Angeles this week. But, alas, he is not starting in L.A.

Somewhere in the executive offices of Chase Field, there may be a finger moving closer to the button marked "PANIC."

It's high noon in the NL West. Into a deserted clearing step Clayton Kershaw, Zack Greinke and Madison Bumgarner. A breeze rolls tumbleweeds across the ground.

What happens next?

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Know what? A cactus is more prickly than you think it is…

1. Zack Greinke Changes Face of NL West

A.J. Pollock, Arizona Diamondbacks outfielder, walked into a nearly deserted batting cage the other day and waited for the one player to finish his swings. It was Zack Greinke.

They signed within days of each other last December for more money per year than any pitcher had ever received. They left first-place teams but didn't leave their division, both joining sub-.500 clubs itching to win.

After shocking the baseball world by agreeing to sign with the Arizona Diamondbacks last week, superstar pitcher Zack Greinke was introduced as part of a highly anticipated press conference Friday.

They could have kept the money and they could have kept the prospects, and then nobody would have called the Arizona Diamondbacks crazy.

Nobody would have called them winners, either.