David Price is Officially Monday's Starter
by R.J. Anderson on May 23, 2009 2:49 PM EDT
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UPDATE: Price was to start Saturday for Durham, which will now use Jason Childers and Julio DePaula against the Lehigh Valley IronPigs.
This will mark Price's second career start in the majors. Anyone who wants to get revenge on Victor Martinez or whomever for the B.J. Upton incident need to push those hopes aside. Price needs not to concern himself with something like that. As for what I'll be looking for:
1. Non-fastball pitches.
During his time up last year, Price threw 98.7% fastballs/sliders. Whether he feels comfortable with the spike curve isn't as much to my concern as to whether he can mix the change-up in. Let's hope so. I'm not looking or hoping for him to become Shields-like in change-up usage either.
2. Durability and efficiency.
He had a 75 pitch allowance in Durham, who knows if the Rays increase that towards 90 immediately, or if they pace him his first time or two through the rotation. Hopefully he can make it through 5, maybe 6.
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Awesome
as for the spot….. I hear Wheeler’s pubic hair hurts and if we demote Thayer, terrorism will win.
For gods sake, give me this rotation from here on out. 1 James Shields 2. Matt Garza 3, David Price 4. Andy Sonnanstine(i guess I trust him) 5. Wade Davis
by joeybw on May 23, 2009 3:36 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
West is a 6'8" lefty
who has struck out 19 lefty batters in 12 innings and has a 1.42 ERA against them vs a 6.3 ERA vs righties. Of course it is a tiny sample, but perhaps the Rays have little scouting on him and want the righties to get a shot at him rather than the lefties. Navarro has caught 4 straight games and it seems he goes either 4 or 5 straight before Hernandez relieves him, so again it makes sense use Michel vs the lefty.
by bobr on May 23, 2009 5:12 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Question, R.J.:
Since David Price is growing up and joining the rotation, are you going to stay with last year’s Velociraptor Jesus imagery
or is Price going to become something like Utahraptor Jesus (the biggest raptor of all, and the one that most closely resembles the Jurassic park raptors)?
Or is this a purely organic, spontaneous process?
by Decatur on May 23, 2009 5:14 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Velociraptors work two-fold.
Because of the whole “velo” “velocity” inner-reference. After Price posts his first sub-3 FIP year perhaps we’ll start calling him Utahraptor Jesus.*
*God I hope he does.
by R.J. Anderson on May 23, 2009 5:56 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I do like the Utahraptor concept, especially because in that picture it has feathers
Just like the raptors, our Velociraptor Jesus is growing up and evolving – and pretty soon he’ll learn to fly, like this: Attack Birds!
Just watch the first minute. It’s awesome.
"I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation." - Satchel Paige
by Steve Slowinski on May 23, 2009 5:58 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
more importantly
play him on my fantasy team?
by plastic on May 23, 2009 6:49 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
So uh
who are you hoping will catch for price that day?
We need Robots....The time is now Bud.
by Some other guy who does not care on May 23, 2009 11:07 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
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