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Price knows the score, and admitted in an All-Star Game media session,*per MLB.com, that he doesn’t know where he’ll be coming next month. He’d prefer to stick with the comfort of the Rays, but there are other teams – he declined to name – that he’d be happy to head to. Later in his comments, however, Price did specify one team by name, as far as the future is concerned:
“Winning is absolutely something you want to do,” Price said, again*per MLB.com, as well as*StlToday.com. “Being a part of something special is also something you want to do. You can take that to a first-place team, or you can take that to a last-place team like the Cubs. With the talent they have coming up, they could be a very special team in a few years as well. That would probably be the coolest city to win a championship in right now. They haven’t done it in I’m not sure how long. To do that there that would be the coolest city to win a championship in right now.”
Folks have talked about a Cubs-Price connection for years now, dating back to the Cubs’ hiring of Price’s former Vanderbilt pitching coach Derek Johnson to be the organization’s pitching coordinator. While that didn’t quite seem like enough to make a marriage, whenever you looked at timelines and needs, there were other reasonable explanations for seeing a fit.
Still, this is the first time we’re hearing anything quite like this straight from the horse’s mouth, and, although Price was ostensibly speaking generally, he chose to discuss the Cubs, unprompted. Obviously this is something he’s considered as he approaches free agency.
Price knows the score, and admitted in an All-Star Game media session,*per MLB.com, that he doesn’t know where he’ll be coming next month. He’d prefer to stick with the comfort of the Rays, but there are other teams – he declined to name – that he’d be happy to head to. Later in his comments, however, Price did specify one team by name, as far as the future is concerned:
“Winning is absolutely something you want to do,” Price said, again*per MLB.com, as well as*StlToday.com. “Being a part of something special is also something you want to do. You can take that to a first-place team, or you can take that to a last-place team like the Cubs. With the talent they have coming up, they could be a very special team in a few years as well. That would probably be the coolest city to win a championship in right now. They haven’t done it in I’m not sure how long. To do that there that would be the coolest city to win a championship in right now.”
Folks have talked about a Cubs-Price connection for years now, dating back to the Cubs’ hiring of Price’s former Vanderbilt pitching coach Derek Johnson to be the organization’s pitching coordinator. While that didn’t quite seem like enough to make a marriage, whenever you looked at timelines and needs, there were other reasonable explanations for seeing a fit.
Still, this is the first time we’re hearing anything quite like this straight from the horse’s mouth, and, although Price was ostensibly speaking generally, he chose to discuss the Cubs, unprompted. Obviously this is something he’s considered as he approaches free agency.