Price has been very good in AA, but I think “dominant” is an overstatement. Dominant, to me, means striking out over 10 per 9 innings at least. In 31 IP Price is at 7.26/9, good but not great. He is walking 2.9/9 (admittedly his first game really raised that rate) for a 2.5 K/BB rate. Again, excellent but not dominant. He is allowing 7.5 hits/9, also very good but not indicative of dominance. His ground ball to fly ball ratio is 1.32 and batters are hitting .228 against him.

Look at two other AA pitchers. Trevor Cahill is 2 years younger and in 32 innings he has Ked 8.2/9. He has allowed far more walks (4.2/9) but only 5.9 hits, 2 home runs and has a ground ball ratio of 3.85 and a .189 BA against.

Or how about Brett Anderson, lefty like Price and also 2 years younger. He has fewer innings (18) but has a 10.5/9 K rate, 3/9 BB rate and a .190 BA against as well as a 5 ground ball ratio.

The Rays have made clear that priority one is focusing on the development of its top prospects. They may move Price up quickly as they did Longoria; he may even make the majors this year. But only if he is clearly ready, not because the team might be able to use him as an improvement over Glover or Hammel or anyone else. They will not make the error the Dodgers made with Edwin!!!!

If anything, Kershaw should be a warning signal to us all. His AA numbers this year have been better than Price’s across the board, and he already has 2 years more pro experience, but his major league performance has been very disappointing, and in a far better pitcher’s park.

Or Buchholz, who at age 22 in AA last year had numbers (over a longer period) significantly better than Price’s, and whose reputation was at least as good as David’s, maybe better, but who, even after time in AAA has been erratic in the majors. If Buchholz was not considered the number one minor league pitching prospect, even the overall #1, it was Phil Hughes whose AAA numbers last year were better than Price’s but who also was erratic and then injured.

Don’t believe the hype, and don’t add to it. I am as confident that Price will be an outstanding major leaguer as I am about any player I have ever seen, but he needs time to develop and must not be rushed.

this sentence from your post:

“Also, he has been nothing short of dominant in AA (minus the one game that he actually gave up HR’s).”

I think he has been short of dominant.

As for moving up, you may indeed be right. My response there was not really to you (which I should have made clear) but to numerous other posts that have called for his immediate promotion to the Rays.

I also agree that we have every reason to be very optimistic about Price.

honestly i have always liked edwin jackson because everyone knows that he has the type of stuff to just be dominanting and has shown us some of that potential this year. honestly it is even really his fault for the first couple of years of his career in the big leagues, its the dodgers who rushed him to the majors at age 20 when he seeemed to maybe need 1 more year of seasoning but they just love to rush every pitching prospect that they have and edwin more less had to learn how to pitch in the big leagues the last couple of years and look at what they have done to clayton kershaw this year as well, age 20 promoted straight from AA and is getting light up lately, the dodgers organization just loves to screw up the first couple of years of their pitching prospects careers by throwing them into the fire

that first half last year of edwin was just horrible, but in the second half at times he was a different pitcher and this year he has also show his potential to be a top pitcher in this league, i guess i can live with the inconsistency for now as long as he continues to become close to the pitcher that he was when he was a bigtime prospect