The Los Angeles Dodgers, who won the most wins in the big leagues in the regular season with a winning percentage close to 70%, were upset and stopped in the first round of the playoffs. As well as confirming once again the uncertainty of short -season competitions, it also means that there are many players in the team, and it is likely that it is over. Years in the Dodgers, including Trea Turner, Clayton Kershaw, Justin Turner, Joey Gallo, David Price , Andrew Heaney, Tyler Anderson, Craig Kimbrel and others have become free agents, and everything is full of unknowns.
Among them, there are many veterans with outstanding achievements, such as the 37-year-old Price, who has played 40 regular season games this season. This is the first time in his career that he has been placed as “pure bullpen” a whole season. WHIP 1.17, submitted the report card of “2 wins, 0 losses, 4 runs and 2 saves” The end of the season was good, but the Dodgers had a lot of soldiers and were not brought into the list of games played A little while ago, there were rumors that he was about to retire. , but not confirmed.
In fact, Price had a relationship with the Dodgers very early: when he graduated from high school in 2004, the Dodgers named him in the draft (19th round). Later, Price went to college and killed the Quartet at Vanderbilt. Tampa Bay Stingrays, and made his big debut at the end of the 2008 season in a Rays jersey.
More than a decade has passed in the blink of an eye, Price has amassed 14 major league seasons (voluntarily withdrew from the 2020 pandemic season), has been selected to five All-Star Games, has a Cy Young Award (2012), and has two defending percentage champions. He and Kershaw were derided as “Mip Guoke” because of the gap between the playoff level and the season, but they also won their first career championship ring in 2018.
To rank among the top 10 left fielders in the big leagues for nearly two decades, Price is likely to be on the list, which shows his representativeness. Given the high quality of the results of the book this season, if you really hang up your sneakers, it will be a beautiful ending, a quick retreat, and a memorable figure in the hearts of the fans.
Looking back at the 2007 draft, Mike Moustakas, the second pick behind Price, has an OPS+ of just 74 this season, and his skills are rapidly declining. Price was undoubtedly the best pitcher in the first round that year, with a career cumulative BWAR of 46.7. The second-highest pitcher in the same round was 10th pick Madison Bumgarner (38.1) (note).
Price just reached the 400-game career milestone this season, but if he continues next year, he has a few more projects ahead of him.
With 157 career wins, he ranks 239th in major league history.
2143.2 innings, 373rd in history.
2,076 strikeouts, 76th all time.
(The ranking gap is so huge because some “Ancient Divine Beasts” can throw a lot of games and win a lot of games, but in the context of time and space, they don’t have or don’t need any ability to break out)
It is worth noting that Chris Sale and Bumgarner also broke through the 2000K, just behind Price, Price may be behind, but Price still has a chance to surpass Tim Hudson, Kevin Millwood, Roy Halladay and other seniors in the elimination list.
Looking at Price’s data, not only has his four-seam average speed this season dropped further, just 92.1 miles, and the speed value has also dropped sharply (less than 2,000 rpm, ranking the last class in the big leagues) With rich experience, relying on Second Seam, Carter Handles shifts and batters, but it is no longer easy for batters to swing, and he has transformed into an “old-fashioned” pitcher who creates a weak link, which is completely different from the difficult style of his youth.
Personally predict that Price will return to the light with a short contract. In this place full of memories for him, he will pass on valuable experience to young pitchers. With a beginning and an end, he will write the last chapter for his player career and add more stories.
Note: Of all players in the first round of the 2007 draft, Price had the second-highest career bWAR, behind Josh Donaldson.
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