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While we don’t yet know the full extent of David Price's injury, I'm not surprised it's happened and I won't be surprised it results in full-blown Tommy John surgery.

If anything, this has been a long time coming.

Poor Price gets beat up for not winning in the postseason, but he's a major reason why the teams he's played for keep getting there. On average, he's logged over 220 innings in his last six seasons. A good amount of those innings have been under high stress, short rest circumstances.

Just ask the 2015 Toronto Blue Jays, who rented and abused Price in their postseason run and pitched him out of the rotation on short rest before calling him out of the bullpen. That, along with the fact that Price is a strikeout pitcher. He doesn’t rely on contact, but on Ks. And that often drives up his pitch count higher than some other pitchers who reach the same innings threshold.

Over the last two seasons, we've wondered if the Price was wrong - health wise, that is. His velocity has trended down and his command has wavered. He's been more hittable. All that and he's suffered previous elbow flare-up with the Tampa Bay Rays, Detroit Tigers and the Red Sox.

If he is indeed injured, Boston will have a tough time filling in Price's spot. The loss of money and productivity isn't easy to fill (or stomach) for any team, but especially not for one in an American League that's seen a ramp-up in competitive acquisitions.

The Yankees are retooling their pitching staff, while the Jays already have a healthy and dominant staff in place. Losing 200 innings of Cy Young-calibre ball is a punch in the Red Sox' gut now and well into 2018.

SharoneWright wrote:I'm not crying for Price or the Red Sox. Jays find some life!

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tecumseh18 wrote:Lawrie gets outrighted by the ChiSox. Bring him home (literally)!

So, AA got JD for ...? I guess Baretto's doing okay in the minors, but how far away is he?

RaptorsFTL wrote:Awful news for Boston. They were poised to go all the way I think, or at least face the Indians. Not that this is the end of their year, but Price really started to heat up at the end last year and find his footing.

The_Hater wrote:

RaptorsFTL wrote:Awful news for Boston. They were poised to go all the way I think, or at least face the Indians. Not that this is the end of their year, but Price really started to heat up at the end last year and find his footing.

Favourites for the division for sure. But at that point the playoffs are a complete crap shoot.

Even without Price, they should still be division faves. But the gap is definitely smaller. Good thing they got Sale but they'll have a lot of dead money going to guys not playing/starting.

Finished a lil workout this morn and my wife wasn't home ... so I decided to "Rock" the casa .. still continuing to be me throughout the hardest time of my existence. " life moves pretty fast, if you don't stop and look around once in a while , you could miss it " - Ferris Bueller

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Schad wrote:It's terrible news for Schultz, but with a couple slight silver linings. He's out of options and had a high degree of likelihood of getting DFA'd; he'll now at least get a major league salary for the full season. He'll also advance his service time clock by a full year; as a result, if he recovers well and can nail down a major league job in 2018, whether with us or elsewhere, he won't be trapped on rookie minimum island anymore.

You'd much rather not have a career-altering surgery, but if you're going to need it, spring training while on the 40-man roster is a hell of a lot better than mid-April.