Things are getting hot with trade talks surrounding the Detroit Tigers and starting pitcher David Price. It’s looking like a trade may be completed today.
We’ve been hearing that the Dodgers were the apparent front runner last night, we heard that the Astros were considering making a push this morning, but now the Blue Jays appear to be charging hard.
sources: blue Jays are making a major push for david price
— Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) July 30, 2015
blue jays are closing in on d. price. would be huge get for them. needed pitching. he's one of best.
— Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) July 30, 2015
A #BlueJays offer of LHP Daniel Norris, LHP Matt Boyd, and CF Anthony Alford may be enough to get David Price from #Tigers.
— Jon Morosi (@jonmorosi) July 30, 2015
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Daniel Norris, Matt Boyd, and Anthony Alford would be an incredible haul in exchange for Price. It hardly seems realistic. Norris and Boyd are both big league ready starters (they’ve both pitched in the majors this sesaon), and both have six seasons of team control remaining.
Norris is more of a “prospect” than Boyd is, but both have seen a good amount of success through the minor leagues. Alford is a young hitter (in High-A) who would seem to carry lots of promise.
It’s not clear if the package would contain any or all of these players — it seems like an awful lot for two or three months of Price — but you never know what desperate teams will do to get a shot at the playoffs.
Executive involved in bidding for Price believes #BlueJays may indeed be close to landing him. “Not going to go on much longer,” he said.
— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) July 30, 2015
Stay tuned. It sounds like things could happen in a hurry.
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