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To: Personal Responsibility
David Price hasn’t shown any slow down since leaving.

He doesn't count :-) since he was traded against his own wishes, and didn't leave for the money; the same thing happened to other pitchers over the years like James Shields, Wade Davis, and Jeremy Hellickson.

Interestingly enough, the one pitcher of recent vintage who left on his own, Fernando Rodney, has never matched his year at TB, and has bounced around a few teams until, most recently, finding a home at, of all places, the Cubs, with his former TB manager Joe Maddon and second-in-command Dave Martinez.

P.S. Last weekend Price pitched against the Rays' Chris Archer, his protégé, two of the best pitchers in baseball today. The result? The Jays won, 10-8; not much of a pitcher's duel going on there.

40 posted on 09/30/2015 8:48:37 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: chajin

Well, he was traded because he’s gonna be a free agent and the Rays have no wanting to spend the money it’ll take to sign him. Shields was always an up and down pitcher, some great years, some awful. Davis was a starter. He only found success after moving to the bullpen. Hellickson is getting shellacked in Arizona to the tune of a 4.6 ERA.


42 posted on 09/30/2015 11:56:33 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (Trump/Cruz 2016)
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