In eight major league seasons, Price has won 104 games, while pitching 1441 innings and striking out 1,372 batters. No deferred money. Three-year opt-out.
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Price and Zack Greinke were considered the biggest catches available this year in the free agent market.
He’s hit homers in roughly one out of every 26 plate appearances against lefties in his career, a home run rate that ranks ahead of every current member of the Red Sox roster except for David Ortiz.
The deal is reported to be for seven years and $217 million, the largest in the history of baseball.
Ex-Tiger Rick Porcello signed a four-year, $82.5-million deal in April. The lefthander helped lead the Toronto Blue Jays to the ALCS for the first time since 1993.
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An AL Cy Young Award victor in 2012, Price pitched for the Tampa Bay Rays for six seasons before he was traded in 2014 to the Tigers, for whom he posted a 13-8 record in 32 starts during the regular season. Dombrowski left Detroit to take over as president of the Red Sox in August.
