Depending on what happens at the trade deadline, that could be the last start that Price makes for the team. However, the Cubs have a winning record of 51-43 and now hold the second N.L. Wild Card spot by 1/2 game over the San Francisco Giants.
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Price will assuredly sign a contract similar to the seven-year, $210 million deal that Scherzer inked with the Washington Nationals and those numbers are beyond the Tigers” “comfort level’.
Price will be one of the top free agents during the next off-season. Bringing Price to Chicago would mean reuniting him with Joe Maddon, the only other manager he’s known in his career besides Tigers’ Brad Ausmus – and also with longtime Rays’ bench coach Dave Martinez, who came to the Cubs along with Maddon this past winter. Why not just keep Price and Cespedes and go for it? Their aging roster (Miguel Cabrera, Victor Martinez, Ian Kinsler, Justin Verlander, Anibal Sanchez) does not bode well for the future and their pitching staff (both starting rotation and bullpen) is among the worst in the Major League Baseball. Detroit has a lot of younger players who are contributing on the roster right now. Combine that successful young core with the older core and it’s actually a good balance. A deal between the Cubs and Tigers looks very possible, and the Cubs could certainly benefit from it now and possibly for the next several years. He won’t be with the Tigers despite being traded or not, according to The Detroit Free Press. Price, should the CUbs win that game, could then slide into the back end of the rotation in the NLDS’s crucial deciding games. He has not even been here a full year yet. While it is odd for a team that is technically still in contention to sell their best starter, Price will likely command a salary north of $25 million on the market. Getting rid of him would admit defeat and they would perhaps hurt their chances of signing any free agents they’re targeting in the offseason if they miss the playoffs. (They’ll have two first-round picks assuming they don’t sign another player who was presented with a qualifying offer.).
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There is still no concrete answer on if the Tigers will be buyer or sellers in the coming days.
