The Los Angeles Dodgers, who in the regular season have achieved the most major league wins with a win rate close to 70%, were shocked and stopped in the first round of the playoffs, in addition to confirming once again the uncertainty of the short-term competitions also means there are a lot of players on the team, and it’s likely to be 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 are many veterans with outstanding achievements, such as 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 positioned as a “pure bullpen” in an entire WHIP 1.17 season, delivered the report card of “2 wins, 0 defeats, 4 relays and 2 saved”. The end of the season was good, but the Dodgers had a large number of soldiers and were not brought to the field. playoff roster Some time ago it was rumored 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). Price then went to college and killed the Quartet at Vanderbilt. Tampa Bay Stingrays, and made his big debut at the end of the 2008 season with the Rays shirt.
More than a decade has passed in the blink of an eye, Price amassed 14 major league seasons (voluntarily retired from the 2020 pandemic shortened season), was shortlisted for five All-Star Games, has a Cy Young Award (2012), and has two defensive percentage champions. He and Kershaw were ridiculed as “Mip Guoke” due to the gap between playoff level and season, but they also won the first championship ring of their career in 2018.
To rank in the top 10 best starting lefties in major leagues in nearly two decades, Price is likely to be on the list, which shows his representativeness. Considering the high quality of the book’s results this season, if you really hang your boots, it will be a beautiful ending, a quick retreat, and a memorable figure in the hearts of fans.
Looking back at the 2007 draft, Mike Moustakas, second place behind Price, has an OPS + of just 74 this season and his skills are rapidly deteriorating. Price was arguably the top pitcher in the first round of that year, with a career cumulative bWAR of 46.7.The second highest pitcher in the same round was 10th place Madison Bumgarner (38.1) (note) .
Price has just hit his 400-game career milestone this season, but if he continues next year, he still has a few plans ahead of him.
With 157 career wins, he ranks 239 in Major League history.
2143.2 innings, 373rd in history.
2,076 strikeout, the 76th of all time.
(The ranking gap is so large because some “Ancient Divine Beasts” can launch many games and win many games, but in the context of time and space, they don’t or don’t need strikeout skills)
It is worth mentioning that Chris Sale and Bumgarner also broke through 2,000,000, slightly behind Price, Price may be behind, but Price still has a chance to overtake Tim Hudson, Kevin Millwood, Roy Halladay and other seniors on the strikeout list.
Looking at Price’s data, his average four-stitch speed this season has not only decreased further, only 92.1 miles, and the speed value has also dropped dramatically (less than 2,000 rpm, ranking in the last class in major leagues). , relying on Second Seam, Carter grappling with rounds and batters, but it is no longer easy for batters to swing, and has morphed into an “old-fashioned” pitcher that creates weak contact, which is completely different from the hard style of his youth.
Personally I predict that Price will return to light with a short contract. In this place full of memories for him, he will pass on precious experiences to young pitchers. With a beginning and an end he will write the last chapter of his playing 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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