IDK about that. You could have said the same thing about Shields and he chose to go to SoCal closer to his home. Every pitcher is going to have his own reasons for the choices they make.
The Cubs would make a ideal landing spot for Price. Youth in place with more upcoming. Payroll increasing. Stadium being modernized. Familiar coaching staff. I look at it as his chance to get to the series with Maddon with a team that will not cut payroll every year just to survive.
Still that said, that may not be his motivation. That is just my vision of his motivation. He could just hop over to the Cards because they are a team that has a track record of getting to the W.S. every year. Maybe he wants the easy way to a ring and would rather not have to beat that team every year. Maybe the whole underdog mentality with the Rays wore him thin and bing on Det. , who is on the other side of it, is more to his tastes.
No one will know until he signs a contract.
