David Price is leaving Tampa Bay. It’s inevitable. It’s a matter of when, not if.
With the low-budget Rays expected to deal the former Cy Young Award winner this season — before he becomes a free agent after the 2015 season — Price admitted on Wednesday the constant speculation about him being dealt has grown bothersome.
“That’s why I’ve been in a bad mood the last week and a half,” Price said following his fifth straight game with double-digit strikeouts, becoming the first pitcher to do so since Johan Santana in 2004. “I think about it. You guys know that. And it’s nothing I really want to talk about. I don’t have an answer for you guys. I don’t know where I’m going. I don’t know when I’m going. So there’s nothing I can really comment on.”
It has been a tough season, playing on the last-place Rays, but at least Price’s college team — Vanderbilt — was able to break the dark cloud hanging over Price with its College World Series triumph on Wednesday.