Like so many before him, he left to win. He left because he felt that was the only way he could win.
Zack Greinke represented a generation of Royals baseball, the kind where hope manifested in individual players, not the team itself, but eventually you knew that too would be snatched away.
The 20-something-year-old Greinke personified that guy, the one worth the price of admission for a team that so often was not. The one who eventually had to leave town to find the two things baseball players crave most — money and winning.
