David Price Signs with Red Sox for $$200m+ / 7 years

[tbone413]

David Price Signs with Red Sox for $200m+ / 7 years

Per Yahoo Sports

Edit: Boston Globe Reporting now too

https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/...david-price/Tsv1SM9yjAU1TncmXJpFUN/story.html

 

[tbone413]

Ken Rosenthal ✔ @Ken_Rosenthal
Average annual value of deal - $31M - would tie Miguel Cabrera for the largest in baseball history.

https://twitter.com/Ken_Rosenthal/status/671810656321015808

 

[tbone413]

While I am not shocked by the Contact (Either Years or $$$) - thats a lot to pay for a pitcher who is 0-fer in the playoffs....

 

[Mitchrapp]

I'm liking the Zimmerman deal all the more.

 

[Mitchrapp]

And you really have to wonder, was he getting close to this money from elsewhere or did DD just overpay a ton. That's a lot of money for December 1st.

 

[Mitchrapp]

Also, at Fenway his power numbers probably go up HR and Doubles.

 

[biggunsbob]

That is a lot of jack !!!!!

 

[Mitchrapp]

0-7, 5.27 ERA, this sums it up pretty nicely.

 

[Thumb]

His playoff stats may not be fantastic, but lets not forget it's the 162 games that get you to the playoffs (or not) that contracts are built around.

Brandon Inge had good postseason numbers, but nobody offered him a contract based on them.

 

[manchild98]

Jeff Passan tweet - The power of Dave Dombrowski: Red Sox didn't want to spend $100M+ on any free agents. He convinced ownership to spend $217M on David Price.

 

[Mitchrapp]

His playoff stats may not be fantastic, but lets not forget it's the 162 games that get you to the playoffs (or not) that contracts are built around.

Brandon Inge had good postseason numbers, but nobody offered him a contract based on them.

Not sure that's a fair comparison. Inge, really? Yeah, he helps get you there but if he stinks when he gets there, value should go down.

 

[sggatecl]

I'm less surprised by Price's contract and more surprised that Miggy hadn't been passed up yet in yearly salary. Those records don't seem to last very long.

 

[sggatecl]

 

[kalinecountry]

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/what-we-know-about-david-price-on-the-red-sox/
What we know about David Price on the redsox.
Fangraphs

As part of the terms, Price can opt out after year three, and sometimes pitchers do that, and sometimes they don?t.

We know the market changes. Or, we know inflation isn?t steady and consistent. I pulled up the last seven years of opening-day payrolls, just because this is a seven-year contract so I got the number ?seven? in my head.
Between 2010 and 2011, teams increased spending by just 2%.
But between 2013 and 2014, teams increased spending by more than 11%, and between 2014 and 2015, they increased spending by more than 8%.
We frequently guess at a 5% rate of inflation, and it?s in the ballpark of being true, probably, but we don?t know what it?ll be. Teams are always spending more. There?s so much money.

 

[tigermud]

Wow that's a lot for price...so does Dave anything left for his pen over their in Boston. Hehe

 

[tigermud]

Hey wait min don't price and big peddy have a tiff with one another..interesting

 

[Thumb]

Not sure that's a fair comparison. Inge, really? Yeah, he helps get you there but if he stinks when he gets there, value should go down.

It's fair if you're saying a players salary should be limited/influenced by his post-season successes/failures.


Dumb. What's to say he will always stink in the playoffs? Look at Verlander; before 2012 he was terrible. In 2012 and 2013 against OAK he was almost a god, then tanked in the 2012 WS. No idiot would ever allow what happens in a 2 week period factor in to a contract that focuses on a season 6 months long.

 

[biggunsbob]

Way to much money!!!!

 

[Rebbiv]

Not sure that's a fair comparison. Inge, really? Yeah, he helps get you there but if he stinks when he gets there, value should go down.

As a whole, Yoenis Cespedes doesn't have good playoff numbers and sucked in the 2015 World Series.

Prior to the last 3 years, CC Sabathia was considered a great pitcher. Yet, his post season numbers are terrible.

The issue with playoff stats are generally they are a small sample rate. One bad outing or one bad series can effect a player for years in the playoffs. In the regular season, they can just change it around in a month or so.

I do not hold much credence to a player's playoff performance, good or bad. They are who they are, regardless what the playoffs say.

Bucky Dent will always be remembered for the 1978 World Series, but his overall playoff stats were no different then his seasonal stats. He should never been an All Star SS.