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My condolences.

Could be tough to find a team that views J.A. Happ as a wise investment at $17 million per year coming off a 2018 season with an ERA of 3.65 in 177.2 innings. In the three previous seasons, Happ had an ERA of 3.44 in 518 innings while Price has an ERA of 3.77 in 356 innings since the start of the 2017 season.

Innings-limited David Price has pitched only 105.1 innings this year, not enough qualify for the FanGraphs fWAR rankings: https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=pit&lg=all&qual=y&type=8&season=2019&month=0&season1=2019&ind=0&team=0&rost=&age=&filter=&players=&startdate=&enddate= Among all pitchers this year Price ranks 49th with 2.3 fWAR, valued at $18.2 million: https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=pit&lg=all&qual=0&type=8&season=2019&month=0&season1=2019&ind=0&team=0&rost=&age=&filter=&players=&startdate=&enddate=&page=2_30 One website lists Price with a negative value of $44.8 million, which subtracted from the $96 million he's owed, leaves about $51 million over three years, or $17 million a season. https://www.baseballtradevalues.com/trade-simulator/ With a 4.25 ERA over an abbreviated 105.1 innings and an IL-stint, a 34-year-old Price might be hard-pressed to land a three-year contract at $18 million per. A decent comp might be Cubs lefthander Cole Hamels, a pending free agent who is 20 months older than Price. Hamels, with his own IL stint this year, has posted 2.4 fWAR, valued at $19.1 million, in 109.2 innings.

According to Cot's Baseball Contracts, Red Sox lefthander David Price is owed $96 million over the next three seasons: https://legacy.baseballprospectus.com/compensation/cots/al-east/boston-red-sox/ One website lists Price with a negative value of $44.8 million: https://www.baseballtradevalues.com/trade-simulator/ In other words, if that value is accurate, the Red Sox would need to pay about $45 million to get little in return.

David Price is signed for three more seasons for a total of $96 million.

Chris Sale to visit Dr. James Andrews, according to Adam Kaufman of WBZ News Radio: And from the Boston Globe's Pete Abraham:

Just information a reader can incorporate or ignore in comparing the 2019 Red Sox and 2018 Red Sox. Warm regards.

This year Red Sox pitchers have posted 12.4 fWAR in 123 games, an average of .100810 per game: https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=pit&lg=all&qual=0&type=8&season=2019&month=0&season1=2019&ind=0&team=0,ts&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=0 Last year Red Sox pitchers posted 18.1 fWAR in 162 games, an average of .11358 per game: https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=pit&lg=all&qual=0&type=8&season=2018&month=0&season1=2018&ind=0&team=0,ts&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=0 This year Red Sox position players have posted 23.7 fWAR in 123 games, an average of .19268 per game: https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=bat&lg=all&qual=0&type=8&season=2019&month=0&season1=2019&ind=0&team=0,ts&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=0&startdate=&enddate= Last year Red Sox position players posted 32.1 fWAR in 162 games, an average of .19815 per game: https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=bat&lg=all&qual=0&type=8&season=2018&month=0&season1=2018&ind=0&team=0,ts&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=0

In that case 34-year-old David Hernandez should have signed with the Seattle Mariners.

No one could force David Hernandez to sign anywhere. Perhaps the righthander preferred a World Series contender.

Such as the poster who claimed the Yankees are a one-dimensional power team as opposed to a multi-dimensional Red Sox team with the ability to get on base. Consider the context.

The Yankees (.345) have a higher on-base percentage than the Red Sox (.344): https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=bat&lg=all&qual=0&type=8&season=2019&month=0&season1=2019&ind=0&team=0,ts&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=0&startdate=2019-01-01&enddate=2019-12-31&sort=13,d So there's that dimension.

That's another reason why the Red Sox might not extend a qualifying offer to David Price if the lefthander were a pending free agent (of course he's not). But that might impact Price's trade value to another club ... or not.

In attended a game at Clinton's NelsonCorp Field in 2004 back when the ballpark was Alliant Energy Field.

Presumably the State University of New York at Geneseo (not Geneseo, Illinois). I grew up in Muscatine and occasionally stay with my sister who lives in Rock Island on the border with Moline. I ran the Quad Cities Marathon in 2013 but last fall ran only the QCM 5K (just shy of my 63rd birthday). Modern Woodman Park remains my favorite minor league stadium.

Blake Swihart, who made his MLB debut in 2015 at age 23 years and 29 days, faced stiff competition in Arizona from catcher Carson Kelly, who made his MLB debut in 2016 at age 22 years and 53 days. Kelly received more seasoning in the minors with 622 games to the 439 minor league games Swihart has played.

Blake Swihart could become available after the Arizona Diamondbacks designated the switch-hitting catcher for assignment:

Without David Price's 2020 salary of $32 million, the Red Sox would face an easier task of resetting. In the hypothetical, would Price accept the qualifying offer?

If David Price were a free agent this offseason, would the Red Sox extend the lefthander a qualifying offer?

The Florida Marlins went from 92 wins en route to a World Series title in 1997 to 54 wins in 1998: https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/FLA/ The 1993 San Francisco Giants won 103 games and the following year were on a 77-win pace before a strike ended the season on August 12: https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/SFG/ The 1993 Giants failed to advance to the postseason, finishing one game behind the Atlanta Braves in the National League West.

The Seattle Mariners on Sunday drew a crowd of 24,219 on the final day of the Edgar Martinez Weekend.* On Sunday I attended a home match of the Portland Thorns, who drew 25,218 fans, an all-time record in the National Women's Soccer League. * Saturday had the main festivities celebrating the induction of Edgar Martinez into the Hall of Fame.

Kevin Kiermaier had two defensive gems and a homer in Saturday night's win: MLB Gameday: Rays 5, Mariners 4 Final Score (08/10/2019) | MLB.com WWW.MLB.COM Follow MLB results with FREE box scores, pitch-by-pitch strikezone info, and Statcast data for Rays vs. Mariners at T-Mobile Park

For what it's worth, the Red Sox rank eighth in the league in fWAR among starters: https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=sta&lg=al&qual=0&type=8&season=2019&month=0&season1=2019&ind=0&team=0,ts&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=0&startdate=2019-01-01&enddate=2019-12-31 ... and seventh among relievers: https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=rel&lg=al&qual=0&type=8&season=2019&month=0&season1=2019&ind=0&team=0,ts&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=0&startdate=2019-01-01&enddate=2019-12-31 ... and third among position players: https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=bat&lg=al&qual=0&type=8&season=2019&month=0&season1=2019&ind=0&team=0,ts&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=0&startdate=&enddate=

The Boston Globe's Alex Speier offers his take: https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/redsox/2019/08/06/onball/YL8h2fUTi7iVmEuRyT1USI/story.html?et_rid=1739401789&s_campaign=108stitches:newsletter

Others grow weary of wild purely subjective from-the-gut guesses of a player's value.