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David Price

David Taylor Price

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 6", Weight: 225 lb.

Born: August 26, 1985 in Murfreesboro, TN
High School: Blackman (Murfreesboro, TN)
School: Vanderbilt University
Drafted by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in the 1st round (1st pick) of the 2007 amateur draft.
Signed August 15, 2007. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 14, 2008
Team: Rays 2008-2011
2012 Contract Status: 1st Year Arb Eligible (Super 2), 5 yrs/$9.75M (07-11), 1 yr/$4.35M (12) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 2.164, Arb Eligible: 2013, Free Agent: 2016 [*], Agents: Bo McKinnis [*]
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All-Time Rank (among Pitchers): #289. Teddy Higuera… #290. Orval Overall… #291. John Franco… #292. DAVID PRICE… #293. Gary Peters… #294. Mike Torrez… #295. John Hiller…

All-Time Rank (among Pitchers): #289. Teddy Higuera… #290. Orval Overall… #291. John Franco… #292. DAVID PRICE… #293. Gary Peters… #294. Mike Torrez… #295. John Hiller…

Standard Pitching

More Stats

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	CG	SHO	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB	Awards
2008	22	TBD-min	AA,A+,AAA	12	1	.923	2.30	19	19	1	0	109.2	92	30	28	7	32	1	109	4	0	3	440		1.131	7.6	0.6	2.6	8.9	3.41	MTG,VRO,DHM · SOUL,FLOR,IL
2008	22	TBR	AL	0	0		1.93	5	1	0	0	14.0	9	4	3	1	4	0	12	1	0	0	57	234	0.929	5.8	0.6	2.6	7.7	3.00
2009	23	TBD-min	AAA	1	4	.200	3.93	8	8	0	0	34.1	28	20	15	5	18	0	35	1	0	0	147		1.340	7.3	1.3	4.7	9.2	1.94	DHM · IL
2009	23	TBR	AL	10	7	.588	4.42	23	23	0	0	128.1	119	72	63	17	54	0	102	4	0	2	557	98	1.348	8.3	1.2	3.8	7.2	1.89
2010	24	TBR	AL	19	6	.760	2.72	32	31	2	1	208.2	170	71	63	15	79	1	188	5	3	5	861	144	1.193	7.3	0.6	3.4	8.1	2.38	AS,CYA-2
2011	25	TBR	AL	12	13	.480	3.49	34	34	0	0	224.1	192	93	87	22	63	5	218	9	0	2	918	107	1.137	7.7	0.9	2.5	8.7	3.46	AS
4 Seasons				41	26	.612	3.38	94	89	2	1	575.1	490	240	216	55	200	6	520	19	3	9	2393	117	1.199	7.7	0.9	3.1	8.1	2.60
162 Game Avg.				15	10	.612	3.38	35	33	1	0	214	182	89	80	20	74	2	193	7	1	3	889	117	1.199	7.7	0.9	3.1	8.1	2.60

Player Value--Pitchers

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	IP	GS	R	Rrep	Rdef	aLI	RAR	WAR	Salary	Awards
2008	22	TBR	AL	14.0	1	4	9	0	.9	5	0.4	$
2009	23	TBR	AL	128.1	23	72	82	5	.9	10	1.0	$
2010	24	TBR	AL	208.2	31	71	121	2	1.0	50	5.3	$1,834,671	AS,CYA-2
2011	25	TBR	AL	224.1	34	93	130	5	.9	37	3.7	$2,084,671	AS
4 Seasons				575.1	89	240	342	13	1.0	102	10.4	$3,919,342

Postseason Pitching

Postseason Gamelog

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	Series	Rslt	Opp	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB
2008	22	TBR	AL	ALCS	W	BOS	1	0	1.000	0.00	3	0	3	0	0	1	2.1	0	0	0	0	2	0	4	0	0	0	9	0.857	0.0	0.0	7.7	15.4	2.00
2008	22	TBR	AL	WS	L	PHI	0	0		2.70	2	0	2	0	0	0	3.1	2	2	1	1	2	0	4	0	0	0	15	1.200	5.4	2.7	5.4	10.8	2.00

2010	24	TBR	AL	ALDS	L	TEX	0	2	.000	4.97	2	2	0	0	0	0	12.2	17	8	7	2	0	0	14	0	0	0	55	1.342	12.1	1.4	0.0	9.9
2011	25	TBR	AL	ALDS	L	TEX	0	1	.000	4.05	1	1	0	0	0	0	6.2	7	3	3	1	1	0	3	0	0	1	27	1.200	9.5	1.4	1.4	4.1	3.00
3 Seasons (4 Series)							1	3	.250	3.96	8	3	5	0	0	1	25.0	26	13	11	4	5	0	25	0	0	1	106	1.240	9.4	1.4	1.8	9.0	5.00
2 ALDS							0	3	.000	4.66	3	3	0	0	0	0	19.1	24	11	10	3	1	0	17	0	0	1	82	1.293	11.2	1.4	0.5	7.9	17.00
1 ALCS							1	0	1.000	0.00	3	0	3	0	0	1	2.1	0	0	0	0	2	0	4	0	0	0	9	0.857	0.0	0.0	7.7	15.4	2.00
1 WS							0	0		2.70	2	0	2	0	0	0	3.1	2	2	1	1	2	0	4	0	0	0	15	1.200	5.4	2.7	5.4	10.8	2.00

Standard Batting

More Stats

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	AB	H	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	Pos	Awards
2008	22	TBD-min	AA,AAA,A+	19	0	0	0	0	0						0	MTG,DHM,VRO · SOUL,IL,FLOR
2008	22	TBR	AL	5	0	0	0	0	0						0	/1
2009	23	TBD-min	AAA	8	0	0	0	0	0						0	DHM · IL
2009	23	TBR	AL	23	3	3	1	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	79	1	1
2010	24	TBR	AL	32	7	7	1	0	5	.143	.143	.143	.286	-20	1	1	AS,CYA-2
2011	25	TBR	AL	2	5	4	0	1	2	.000	.200	.000	.200	-36	0	1	AS
4 Seasons				62	15	14	2	1	7	.143	.200	.143	.343	-2	2
162 Game Avg.				162	39	37	5	3	18	.143	.200	.143	.343	-2	5

Player Value--Batters

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Rbat	Rroe	Rpos	RAR	oRAR	Salary	Pos	Awards
2009	23	TBR	AL	3	0	-0	0	-0	-0	$	1
2010	24	TBR	AL	7	-1	0	1	-0	-0	$1,834,671	1	AS,CYA-2
2011	25	TBR	AL	5	-1	0	0	0	0	$2,084,671	1	AS
3 Seasons				15	-2	-0	1	-0	-0	$3,919,342

Postseason Batting

Postseason Gamelog

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	Series	Opp	Rslt	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
2008	22	TBR	AL	WS	PHI	L	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0
1 WS							1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0

Standard Fielding

More Stats

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rdrs	Rdrs/yr	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	SB	CS	CS%	PO	Awards
2008	TBR	AL	22	P	5			14.0	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	0	0	0.64	0.20	.950	1.61	1.60
2009	TBR	AL	23	P	23			128.1	23	5	17	1	0	.957	1	2	1.54	0.96	.953	1.53	1.51
2010	TBR	AL	24	P	32			208.2	30	8	22	0	2	1.000	0	0	1.29	0.94	.953	1.63	1.61					AS,CYA-2
2011	TBR	AL	25	P	34	34	0	224.1	40	13	23	4	2	.900	-4	-4	1.44	1.06	.949	1.60	1.59	20	5	20%	1	AS
	4 Seasons			P	94	34	0	575.1	94	26	63	5	4	.947	-3	-1	1.39	0.95	.951	1.60	1.58	20	5	20%	1
	4 Seasons			TOT	94	34	0	575.1	94	26	63	5	4	.947	-3	-6	1.39	0.95	.951	1.60	1.58	20	5	20%	1

Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.

View Complete Notes on Fielding Data

Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.

Pre-1950 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
From 1950 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1950 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1919 on.
Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1950 to 1973 and complete from then on.
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Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

All-Star Games 2010 (P) 2011	Cy Young (yr lg (rk, shr)) 2010 AL (2, 56%) 0.57 Career Shares (92nd)	WAR for Pitchers† s c a p y 2010 AL 5.3 (3rd)	Earned Run Average s c a p y 2010 AL 2.72 (3rd)
Wins s c a p y 2010 AL 19 (2nd)	Win-Loss % s c a p y 2010 AL .760 (2nd)	Hits per 9 IP s c a p y 2010 AL 7.332 (5th) 2011 AL 7.703 (9th)	Strikeouts per 9 IP s c a p y 2010 AL 8.109 (9th) 2011 AL 8.746 (5th)
Innings Pitched s c a p y 2011 AL 224.3 (9th)	Strikeouts s c a p y 2010 AL 188 (8th) 2011 AL 218 (5th)	Games Started s c a p y 2011 AL 34 (1st)	Shutouts s c a p y 2010 AL 1 (3rd)
Bases on Balls s c a p y 2010 AL 79 (6th)	Strikeouts / Base On Balls s c a p y 2011 AL 3.460 (9th)	Home Runs per 9 IP s c a p y 2010 AL 0.647 (8th)	Losses s c a p y 2011 AL 13 (7th)
Batters Faced s c a p y 2011 AL 918 (9th)	Adjusted ERA+ s c a p y 2010 AL 144 (3rd)	Adj. Pitching Runs s c a p y 2010 AL 28 (3rd)	Adj. Pitching Wins s c a p y 2010 AL 2.9 (3rd)
Base-Out Runs Saved (RE24)† s c a p y 2010 AL 29.78 (3rd)	Sit. Wins Saved (WPA/LI)† s c a p y 2011 AL 2.2 (10th)	Base-Out Wins Saved (REW)† s c a p y 2010 AL 3.3 (3rd)	Errors Committed as P s c a p y 2011 AL 4 (4th)

† Statistics like WPA, REW and RE24 are computed from play-by-play data which is only complete from 1974 to the present. From 1950-1973, the data is incomplete, though for most seasons only less than 20 games per season total are missing. Please see our page on data coverage for a full view of the data used to create these leaderboards.

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Black Ink	Pitching - 1 (829), Average HOFer ≈ 40
Gray Ink	Pitching - 28 (837), Average HOFer ≈ 185
Hall of Fame Monitor	Pitching - 18 (658), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame Standards	Pitching - 20 (307), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

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Transactions

June 7, 2004: Drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 19th round of the 2004 amateur draft, but did not sign.
June 7, 2007: Drafted by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in the 1st round (1st pick) of the 2007 amateur draft. Player signed August 15, 2007.

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Salaries

Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses

Year	Age	Team	Salary	Sources
2010	24	Tampa Bay Rays	$1,834,671
2011	25	Tampa Bay Rays	$2,084,671

2012	26	Tampa Bay Rays	$4,350,000

Career to date (may be incomplete)			$3,919,342	Does not include future salaries

Salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.

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