Alot of eyebrows were raised when David Price signed a 1 year $ 10.1 million deal to avoid arbritration. This is a very easy contract to trade to any contender come July 31. But what I've heard is the lines of communication are still open with David's agent and the Rays. I think the Rays would love to lock-up David to a 6 year deal in excess of $100 million. But David knows he can get more from several clubs. But David likes playing for Tampa Bay. Either way I wouldn't be surprised if David was traded. And wouldn't be surprised if David signed a long-term deal.

I really hope we can! He's getting better each year, and really hasn't even hit his prime. While I think he would consider giving us somewhat of a "home team" discount, it's still going to be a HUGE contract. Which honestly, with him locked up on the pitching front, and Longoria on the fielding and hitting, which other two guys would you rather build around?

However, if he were traded, imagine the haul! Honestly, I don't think it would be anything less than ANY teams top 5 prospects. I'm not saying I'm for this. Like I said in the beginning, I want us to lock him up.

Unfortunatly the long term deal may be with another club..

Those "top 5 prospects" will ultimately become very necessary to the Rays continued success.

Agreed..The Rays gave David a fair Contract ,a hefty raise..I like the one year at a time thing..Ted Williams had a career full of one year Contracts and earned everyone of them..A two or three year deal at the most..The Ten year contract given to Puljos will probably bite the Angels..Certainly the AROD deal has bitten the Yanks and they are stuck with it..David will do whats best for David as will the Rays..If he has another out standing year his worth will soar and that will be a good thing for him and the Rays..

One thing that worries me is a D. Price's arm movement. Knock on wood, light up the candles, sacrifice a dove, pray it never happens.

On a fastball, his mechanics are proper. He goes from 11:00 to 5:00 with his arm. All fine and nice. But then he finishes by snapping back his arm in a sort of whiplash motion and finishes up at around 9:00-9:30. That move puts an undesired strain on his elbow. He's not noticing now, he's not feeling it, he's done it probably since childhood. But at some point, that elbow will "break".

When it happens, then it's all chance. As in bonne chance.

Here's a problem. He's probably doing it unconsciously by now. It's ingrained. In his muscle memory. And if you try to change something like that now, it will mess up his delivery. Catch-22.

I agree that the long-term contracts for outrageous sums of money are bad news ... and the Alex Rodriguez, Pujols ... and even the Crawford ... contracts seem to prove the point. Even Rafael Soriano: he opted out of his three or four year contract with the Yankees ... expecting to get more money and a longer term from somebody else ... and ... he's now withering on the free agent vine ... and will almost undoubtedly end-up with a contract for less money than the Yanks were supposed to pay him in 2013.

Personally, I think this will be Price's last full season with the Rays ... UNLESS ... which I once thought Crawford and upton might do ... he's happy with $10 million per season ... and agrees to stay around for future seasons for that same amount. (???)

(I mean, really, how much money does the average working guy eally need to make over a six-month period playing a kids' game each year to be ecstatically happy ... at least financially ???)

Pure power pitchers with that particular snap-and-whiplash motion almost inevitably wreck the arm ... shoulder and/or elbow ... and not all of them come back from the surgical repairs ... at least not at their former level of effectiveness. There really aren't a lot of Clemenses and Ryanses around any more.

No there aren't but Price could be one of them....He tyakes very good care of that arm has never suffered any kind of serious problem withy it and wqas stated it is ingrained into the muscle memory because he has been it all his life.....So as the old saying goes "don;try to fix what ain't broke."

As for David's future as a Ray, I do know that he just closed on a 6 acre tract of land out in the Keystone area of Pinellas County to have a home built there....Talks are also ongoing regarding a long term deal of 5-6 years in the neighborhood of $100-115 million, so it very well copuld be a done deal ewither before ST or shortly after if all sides come together....Looks like David, just like Evan, would love to make his home and career here......Let's hope so!

Well, hopefully, his arms holds out for him and he decides to stay with the Rays as long as he wants because he understands making even $10 million per season over several years is well more than enough $$$ for what he does. And, of course, job stability and other unquantifiable perks and benefits available used to be part of a lot of employees' value proposition ... and often made up for an acceptable, but somewhat lower or static income. It would be nice to see one of these young guys today really evidencing some of those old-time perspectives and values.

As I said earlier, I thought Crawford and Upton might go that "stay at home" route ... but I was obviously very wrong.

Friedman said something interesting about being creative with the other 23 players on the team when most of your money is tied up with 2 players. Evan is locked-up. So maybe David is the other player the Rays can lock-up. It would go a long way to stabilizing the team with a superstar 3B and Superstar Starter on your team for many years to come...