4:43pm: Price will earn $30MM in each season from 2016-18, $31MM in 2019 and $32MM per year from 2020-22, according to ESPN’s Jerry Crasnick (via Twitter).
4:29pm: Bob Nightengale of USA Today reports that Price will earn $30MM per year in the first three years of his contract, prior to the opt-out (Twitter link).
3:56pm: The Red Sox are in agreement with left-handed ace David Price on a seven-year, $217MM contract, reports Peter Abraham of the Boston Globe. The Bo McKinnis client will sign the largest contract for a pitcher in history when the deal becomes official, narrowly eclipsing Clayton Kershaw‘s $215MM contract with the Dodgers. Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports reports that Price’s contract contains an opt-out deal after the third year of the contract, also noting that his $31MM average annual value ties Miguel Cabrera for the richest AAV in Major League history (links to Twitter).
This post was edited by FLCKennedy on Dec 1 2015 04:46pm