Red Sox: What if Boston never overpaid to sign David Price?

Price in Boston

The 2016 season campaign started with a quality start, 10 strikeout performance allowing two runs on five hits against the Cleveland Indians. Price went on to go 3 – 0 in April and won four of his first six starts as a member of the Sox. Before May was over, Price had a 7 – 1 record in 11 starts with 79 strike outs in 68 2/3 innings with a disastrous 5.11 ERA. The following two months went in the absolute opposite direction for Price who couldn’t seem to make the right adjustments.

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Over the course of June and July, Price went 2 – 6. While managing to lower his ERA down to 4.26, he still gave up eight home runs in June, one more than the first two months combined. The strike out numbers were not a major concern with 74 K’s in 75 innings. The month of July wasn’t any better aside from his 2nd start against his former club. No way the last two months could have been as bad or worse right?

You’d be wrong if you said yes. In 12 starts over the last two months, Price made adjustments and went 4 – 1 each month to combine for an 8 – 2 record with 73 strike outs in 81 1/3rd innings. The strike out numbers had slowly dropped raising perhaps some concern. The biggest concern however was his second to last start of the season against the Yankees. Price got lit up for six runs on 12 hits in 6 1/3rd innings giving up three long balls and only managed to get strike outs.