Greinke heading back to Royals

The Kansas City Royals and Zack Greinke are set to reunite, the six-time All-Star heading back to where it all started.

Stats PerformUpdate: Mar 16th, 2022 17:04 EDT

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Zack Greinke is returning to where he started his major league career, agreeing to a one-year, $13 million contract with the Kansas City Royals, pending a physical, according to Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic.

Greinke returns two decades on

The Royals selected Greinke with the sixth overall pick of the 2002 draft and he made his MLB debut for the club two years later. Spending his first seven seasons in Kansas City, Greinke won the 2009 AL Cy Young Award with a league-leading 2.16 ERA and 242 strikeouts in 229 1/3 innings.

Pitching for the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2015, he won his second ERA title, recording a 1.66 ERA, and finished second in NL Cy Young voting. The 38-year-old, who has been selected to six All-Star Games and has won six Gold Gloves, has also pitched for the Milwaukee Brewers, Los Angeles Angels, Arizona Diamondbacks and spent the last three seasons with the Houston Astros.