Friday before the Los Angeles Dodgers pulled a late switch and nixed a battle of aces.The Dodgers’ Clayton Kershaw no longer will match up with the Arizona Diamondbacks‘ Zack Greinke in the second game of the four-game series at Dodger Stadium as fellow left-hander Hyun-Jin Ryu will take his place for the Dodgers Friday night.It wasn’t that the Dodgers wanted to spread the pitching wealth around the series. In moving Kershaw to Saturday’s game against Arizona http://www.angelsfanproshop.com/authentic-reggie-jackson-jersey , it will give him an extra day of rest with a month left in the season, but primarily it lines up his next outing against another National League West title contender in the Colorado Rockies.Article continues below ...“Every game is very difficult, but when you’re playing a division rival, that essentially counts as two games,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said, according to the Los Angeles Times. “To have the guys that you want in a particular matchup, that’s what we feel comfortable with.”The Dodgers lost to the Diamondbacks 3-1 on Thursday night to fall two games behind first-place Arizona in the division, while essentially putting more emphasis on Ryu’s start Friday.Greinke is still the Friday starter for Arizona. His August was not as good as his brilliant July, but he still arrives at his former home park with a 2.19 ERA over his last 10 starts going back to the beginning of July. His worst outing in that bunch came Aug. 13 when he gave up four runs over 6 1/3 innings in a loss to the Texas Rangers.But in his last outing Sunday against the contending Seattle Mariners Andrelton Simmons Jersey , Greinke (13-8, 2.93 ERA) went 6 2/3 innings without giving up an earned run and picked up his first victory since July 27. He is 6-4 lifetime against the Dodgers with a 3.84 ERA over 13 starts. This season Greinke is 2-0 with a 4.38 ERA in two starts against Los Angeles.Greinke is well aware that Arizona still has two series remaining against the Dodgers, counting this one, as well as two series against the Rockies. The D-backs also have games remaining with the Houston Astros and Chicago Cubs.“I don’t know about the strength of schedule, but it looks like we’ve got a lot of tough teams coming this month,” Greinke said, according to the Arizona Republic, “and play the people we’re competing against a lot, so it is going to be an intense last month http://www.angelsfanproshop.com/authentic-yunel-escobar-jersey , I’d expect.”In three starts since coming off the disabled list because of a strained left groin, Ryu (4-1, 2.18) has been impressive. In recent starts against the Giants, Cardinals and Padres he has a combined 2.30 ERA over 15 2/3 innings.Ryu is 3-3 with a 3.90 ERA in 12 career starts against the Diamondbacks, and he is 0-0 with a 5.40 ERA in two starts against them this season.Ryu has yet to throw more than 89 pitches in a start during his comeback, though, and the Dodgers could be forced to make an early call to a bullpen that has been a wild ride of late.Dodgers relievers struggled when closer Kenley Jansen was on the disabled list for 10 days in August with an irregular heartbeat. Jansen has struggled in four outings since he has returned, but the rest of the relievers have been better and the Dodgers just got right-hander Josh Fields back from a DL stint of his own because of right shoulder inflammation. Boston Red Sox designated hitter J.D. Martinez didn't sign his deal with the reigning World Series champions until spring training last year and isn't surprised this offseason's market is again moving at a slow pace.Martinez was asked if he thought the market would move in a similar fashion this year and called free agency "embarrassing for baseball," per Rob Bradford of WEEI:"One-hundred-percent. I knew it was Why wouldn't it? They got away with it last year Martin Maldonado Jersey , why wouldn't they do it again? What's going to happen? Nothing. It's embarrassing for baseball, it really is. It's really embarrassing for the game. You have a business. They say, 'The market is down, the market is changing.' The market is higher than it's ever been. People are making more money than ever, and they're trying to suppress it. It's more of a race towards the bottom now than a race towards the top. You can go right now through everyone's lineup and you already know who's going to be in the playoffs. What's the fun in that? We might as well just fast-forward to the end of the season."Martinez went on to say "losing is incentivized now," when pointing out there are fewer teams fighting for free agents as many notable players remained unsigned with spring training underway. "You have 80 percent of the teams trying to lose."His comments come with Bryce Harper, Dallas Keuchel and Craig Kimbrel among those who have not signed with a team. Manny Machado didn't sign with the San Diego Padres until teams reported to spring training, and there are enough free agents remaining to swing the World Series race if contenders make a move before Opening Day.Martinez is not the only one to criticize what is happening around the league, as Houston Astros ace Justin Verlander called the system "broken http://www.angelsfanproshop.com/authentic-j.-c.-ramirez-jersey ," while reigning National League MVP Christian Yelich criticized "anti player rhetoric."The reality from last year is teams are not spending the same percentages of the revenues they generate as they did in the past.Maury Brown of Forbes provided the numbers underscoring that reality, pointing out the $10.3 billion in gross revenues the league generated in 2018 was "another record year." However, 54.2 percent of the revenues went to the players, which represented approximately a 4 percent drop from the prior year.It was the largest salary-to-revenues drop since 2012, when it dropped more than 6 percent. The percentage hasn't increased from the previous year since 2015.Martinez stressed how important it is for players to fight the current patterns in 2021 for the next collective bargaining agreement.