Peter Abraham of the Boston Globe reports that the Red Sox and David Price have agreed to a seven-year, $217 million contract.

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They spent a boatload last offseason.... on shit

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Keeping him by paying that much made no sense for us. We will need the money to extend the MVP, and resign Jose and Edwin. We just need solid enough pitchers to throw 150+ innings and a solid bullpen. I'm more jealous of the Kimbrel pickup than this. Our offence will get us through games if our pitchers can eat up the innings

Also, what other big name pitchers are on the market?

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Though all the buzz has him going to the Giants.

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He's a really good pitcher. There are fewer and fewer teams every year who would be genuinely hamstrung by balling out on a seven year contract for a 30 year old pitcher, and even when there were a lot of those teams the Red Sox were never one of them. So, he'll probably be really, really good for a few years and then less good as he declines into middle age. But he's a smart pitcher with more working for him than just a big, fat fastball and profiles as the sort of guy who can succeed while losing a bit of his stuff. And he fits Boston's apparent interest in pursuing special lefties, which is kind of a duh. A "meh" lefty in that park should just hang himself by his shoelaces, but the Price/Lester continuum (Eduardo Rodriguez, they hope) is different.

The fun thing that's happened the last couple years is that these opt-out points, which I used to hate for teams, have actually become a pretty nice safety valve when applied to a real life ace like Price. Price can opt out in three years, and provided he stays his healthy self, he almost certainly will. Salaries will keep going up and that affects the top-shelf talent disproportionately. Look at Zack Greinke, hot shit on the FA market three years ago, equally hot shit now.

The time for restraint will be after the 2018 season. For now, the things that Boston fans can or should worry about are the unpredictable: like Price and his excellent record of health and durability getting a career-altering shoulder injury. It could happen. He could also get hit by a bus or run over his foot with a lawnmower.

So yeah, not a lot to say for a rich team. Throwing a genuine #1 at the top of your rotation doesn't require the same amount of thought as wondering what you're gonna do with Hanley Ramirez and Pablo Sandoval and David Ortiz and that young outfield on the same roster. Everybody you liked slides back one hypothetical slot and therefore looks better. The pitcher you hated seeing every five days suddenly doesn't have a job.

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I don't watch baseball regularly, but that was good insight there. Thank you for your time.

Mentioning cable money instantly makes me think of the Yankees since I live in NYC. Like I said, I don't watch baseball, so I could be off, but I'm guessing the Yankees have contracts with some older players they'll have to led ride out before they can spend their way out of their troubles. At also seems as if the Steinbrenner sons are more thoughtful with their money than the father was, but I could be wrong there as well.

To make this response relevant to David Price, doesn't he have issues losing in the playoffs? I remember hearing that on the Dan Patrick Show during the recent playoff run.

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>Mentioning cable money instantly makes me think of the Yankees
>since I live in NYC. Like I said, I don't watch baseball, so I
>could be off, but I'm guessing the Yankees have contracts with
>some older players they'll have to led ride out before they
>can spend their way out of their troubles. At also seems as if
>the Steinbrenner sons are more thoughtful with their money
>than the father was, but I could be wrong there as well.

The thing standing in the Yankees' way at the moment isn't an organic budget, but a pretty punitive luxury tax that can (depending on circumstances) nearly double the money spent on on-field personnel. That didn't exist a few years ago, and the Yankees are in pretty much the situation you've described: having to get out from under some contracts that range from untradeable (Rodriguez and Sabathia) to mostly undesireable (McCann, Ellsbury).

So, you're right but I'd attribute it less to thoughtfulness than a new, external financial constraint. And it didn't stop them from the Ellsbury and McCann contracts pretty recently.

This is why 2018 is a more important decision for them than now. He'll likely be excellent, but resisting the impulse to just repeat this deal when he wins a Cy Young in 2018 is going to be very, very tough. But the downside is that they start locking themselves into a Yankees' situation.

>To make this response relevant to David Price, doesn't he have
>issues losing in the playoffs? I remember hearing that on the
>Dan Patrick Show during the recent playoff run.

He has had trouble in the playoffs, but letting that 63 inning sample (spread across a bunch of years) influence their decision seems pre-mature. To put it another way, who else are they going to bet on? Somebody less talented? Kershaw had that reputation until he was excellent in the post-season this year. Ditto Bonds, until 2003 against the Angels.

Chris Young was excellent in the playoffs this year, and he's probably available for a minor league deal and a spring training invite. Over 33 starts, Price is obviously preferable, and then you just figure talent wins over enough post-season reps.

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and Boston came in and upped the ante by 30 mil.

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