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David Price Cares Not For Your Trade Rumors

This one lived up to the billing. Price pitched beautifully and Roy Halladay pitched well, but not well enough to keep the Rays off the board. Check out the lines:

Price - 6 IP, 25 TBF, 7 K, 1 BB, 6 GB, 4 FB, 103 P, 63% strikes

Halladay - 6 IP, 27 TBF, 7 K, 0 BB, 4 GB, 6 FB, 102 P, 73% strikes

Following the worst outing of his life, Price comes back and goes toe-to-toe with one of the best pitchers of the generation.  Sure, he got a generous strike zone at some points today, and he took full advantage of it. Having seen Price squeezed at the bottom of the zone before, it's hard to be up in arms when a few breaks go his way.

We've talked about the struggles the Rays pitchers have had in missing the Jays bats. Today, Price generated 11 whiffs. He threw mostly fastballs and sliders, but a handful of change-ups were mixed in. Nobody swung and missed at a change - four of the pitches were called balls - but he did get Vernon Wells to groundout on the pitch in the fourth inning.  

Some days Price won't need anything but his main two pitches, today was one of those days. The importance of having a good change (or spike curve, I guess) is for those 90% of days when Price's fastball command is off or he doesn't feel comfortable with his slider. Give Price credit for his willingness to adapt, even if it stems from necessity.

Don't glorify this start too much due to its singularity, but appreciate what we saw today and rejoice in the fact that we should get more than a few of these over the years.

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The Hickey adjustment was made last game

against Texas (loss), he made the anti-Hickey adjustment today (win).

/wanting to make sure I fit in with overall theory that Hickey licks the nads.

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by Buc Wild on Jul 9, 2009 4:18 PM EDT up reply actions  

Hickey Two-Face?

Come ON Pat the Bust, Navi can not have more homers than you

by 4QB on Jul 9, 2009 7:01 PM EDT up reply actions  

Can you please clarify whaty ou mean about 'trade rumors'?

Specifically, what the fuck are you talking about?

I can't wait until we trade him for a reliever.

by kericr on Jul 9, 2009 4:15 PM EDT reply actions  

Price for Halladay?

Maybe.

Desmond, Brignac, and Davis for Halladay? No.

by R.J. Anderson on Jul 9, 2009 4:25 PM EDT up reply actions  

Oh no, that 2nd trade is crazy.

I think the Jays might want a bit more for Halladay, so in fantasy land I could see Halladay and either one of their catchers for Price and Brignac.

I can't wait until we trade him for a reliever.

by kericr on Jul 9, 2009 4:28 PM EDT up reply actions  

Long term deal at anywhere near free agent value? No way.

1.5 years of Halladay would probably net $20M+ in savings compared to production, arguably more than Price is “expected” to provide.

“Expected” meaning what typical top ten pitching prospects end up doing, due to a high percentage of busts and injuries. If by “expected” we instead mean “fulfills most of potential, but isn’t an ace” then he’s still really really valuable and not worth Halladay. That’s just 3 WAR per season.

by Sky Kalkman on Jul 9, 2009 6:41 PM EDT up reply actions  

Sooo

you’re saying that Doc is kind of valuable and/or good?

SOSH AUCTION to K ALS

by Sandy Kazmir on Jul 10, 2009 2:19 AM EDT up reply actions  

The twins

don’t care about baseball

Come ON Pat the Bust, Navi can not have more homers than you

by 4QB on Jul 9, 2009 7:02 PM EDT up reply actions  

Where were his release points today?

I know there was a thing about that the other day that he was releasing higher. Was that fixed?

by raysrule44 on Jul 9, 2009 5:52 PM EDT reply actions  

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