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"This was the first time going through this stuff in the middle of a season, but my first goal was to win games with Milwaukee," Greinke said of the trade rumors leading up to the deal. "It just wasn't working out for us, so we knew that some of us were more likely to get traded than others. But I knew that any team I was going to get traded to was probably a pretty good team."

The arrival of the 2009 AL Cy Young Award winner gives the Angels an All-Star rotation from top to bottom, and renews their confidence for the stretch drive. Greinke now has a chance to return to the postseason one year after he helped the Brewers reach the playoffs with a 16-6 record and 3.83 ERA in the regular season.

Milwaukee dropped back this year and shipped Greinke to the Angels on Friday for rookie shortstop Jean Segura and a pair of Double-A pitchers.

This is the Angels' third big-name acquisition before the July 31 trade deadline in five years. They got Haren from Arizona in 2010 and first baseman Mark Teixeira from Atlanta in 2008.

The 28-year-old Greinke, who was 9-3 with a 3.44 ERA with the Brewers, is in the final year of a four-year, $38 million contract. He'll make his Angeles debut today against Tampa Bay.