The Red Sox did have a significant health issue as well. Our ace starter Chris Sale, who pitched little the last 2 months of the season and was clearly far from 100% in his postseason appearances.
I would rather keep sending them out there for their starts, assuming they're healthy, and try to figure out what the issues are. At this point the results don't matter that much.
Yeah, but I think all of us were feeling much better about the team after we pummelled the Yankees in those 3 games. And I don't think any of us foresaw them turning right around and dropping 8 straight.
And Weber had a good start against the Jays this year. But he got smoked in his next start.
I think he's one of those guys who can look good when he's 100% on. But you can say that about a lot of pitchers.
Let's not be comparing Price to Crawford. Crawford was a complete washout after he got paid. Price at least is on the cover of the 2018 World Series DVD set.
Price's contract would only be a little more than half over. He's still due more than 100 million. And other teams are probably feeling a little pessimistic about how well he'll age too.
I don't think it was that big of an opportunity. We weren't going to re-tool with what we got for broken goods like Porcello and Moreland. Trading Price would have been a salary dump which would have mostly resulted in us paying half his salary to play elsewhere.