David Price is still a member of the Tampa Bay Rays, but Joe Maddon wants the team to prepare for a possible trade.
Maddon said trading players like Price is simply "how we have to operate."
"What I've heard is, obviously, what everybody else is hearing. There is a lot of conjecture and talk about it. When you lose a player of that magnitude, not just the fact that he's such a good pitcher, but this guy ... matters a lot to the clubhouse and to the team. (But) having said all those things ... this is how we have to operate within our little world," Maddon said.
"So if it were to happen, it's one of those that's almost the word 'devastating' in a sense. But we have to recover from those kind of moments if it does actually occur."