FACTS/FLUKES: Greinke, Wilson, Bourn, Garza, Young

Greinke remains a worthy rotation anchor ... Though an ill-advised pickup basketball game cost him a month worth of starts, Zack Greinke (RHP, MIL) bounced back and completed a fine first season in Milwaukee—16 wins and a sub-4.00 ERA. Those stats, though, didn't do justice to his phenomenal skills season of 2011:

Year     IP    ERA   xERA   Ctl    Dom   Cmd   hr/9     G/L/F   hr/f   BPV
====    ===   ====   ====   ===   ====   ===   ====   ========  ====   ===
2008    202   3.47   3.81   2.5    8.1   3.3    0.9   43/19/38    9%   100
2009    229   2.16   3.28   2.0    9.5   4.7    0.4   40/19/41    5%   135
2010    220   4.17   3.82   2.3    7.4   3.3    0.7   46/18/36    8%    97
2011    172   3.83   2.70   2.4   10.5   4.5    1.0 ...

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