David Price

Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher David Price is set to hit free agency as one of the most prized targets on the market this winter. 

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Blue Jays Interested in Re-Signing Price

Monday, Oct. 26

"We have strong interest in David Price coming back here," Blue Jays general manager Alex Anthopoulos said Monday, per the team's official Twitter account. "We will be in the game"

The Toronto Blue Jays will try to push the ALCS to a Game 7 when they are away to the Kansas City Royals on Friday night. Toronto pitcher David Price will be looking to silence critics and doubters not long after the scheduled 8:07 p.m. ET start time. 

The shake-up in Los Angeles has already started. 

For all the numbers, data, formulas and eyeball scouting, the decision-makers in Major League Baseball are still human—sometimes.

They are prone to non-analytical judgments. They have feelings. They watch the postseason like everyone else. They feel the ups and the downs, and they see and feel the emotion involved with it all.

The numbers mean nothing, and yet they mean everything.

Nobody who knows anything would say that David Price can't pitch in the postseason, but by now just about everybody knows Price hasn't won in the postseason—not once, at least not as a starter.

Seven career starts. Seven losses.

Marco Estrada had been put in this situation before. Just a little more than a week ago, in fact. 

There is enough of a sample size to pass judgment.

The American League and National League Championship Series are both two games old, and both are somewhat surprisingly 2-0 in favor of the teams with home-field advantage. The Kansas City Royals and New York Mets are two wins away from heading to the 2015 World Series, but as the division series reminded us, you cannot count out the trailing teams. 

David Price’s monkey was clinging to his back by its fingertips.

Shedding it could have meant so much to the ace on a personal level, and it would have meant the Toronto Blue Jays were back in the American League Championship Series rather than being half-buried by the Kansas City Royals.

It's too soon to know a lot about what's coming in the MLB offseason, but at least this much is certain: David Price is going to make the big bucks.

When David Price's first pitch crossed the plate and got Game 1 of the American League Division Series going, there was so much optimistic energy in the air at the Rogers Centre that it's a wonder the umpiring crew didn't signal some sort of interference.

What followed, however, was a reality check. Both for Price and the Toronto Blue Jays as a whole.