Price rumors update

Robert Murray of Baseball Essential,  fueled a lot of the David Price speculation a couple days ago by reporting that Price wants to stay in Toronto.  

This morning on the FAN590, Murray was the guest.   Murray expanded to say that although his original report is true, the team is not confident that they will get a deal done.   What's the issue?   Just years and money....nothing big.    He states the Jays may be willing to go 6 years but not more.   Price likely ends up with a 7 year deal. 

So all of these rumors could have been conjured up by Captain Obvious.   ‎If you think about it, what do we know now that we didn't know before?   We were pretty sure that Price liked his time in Toronto.   We were also pretty sure the Jays wouldn't want to spend the kind of money to land him.   And that's still where we sit.  

Last night there was more of a Price twitter storm when some dude named @incarceratedbob broke some big news:

Sounds great eh?    Well let's take the leap for a second and assume that Incarcerated Bob is accurate.   Is this any different from what Robert Murray said?    The details they are hammering out is money.   So if a deal doesn't get done, Bob left wiggle room out of his "breaking news" to say that they couldn't hammer out the deal.    We still know nothing.   There's some evidence that Bob is wrong a lot of the time.    My suspicion is that Bob found the Robert Murray tidbits from the previous day and he just extrapolated it a tiny bit.    If Price does end up signing with Toronto, then Bob will want his accolades for breaking this news first.  I do hope he's not really incarcerated.  

Josh Donaldson was on TSN radio the other night and what he said is similar to all of this.   He said that if the Jays are in the right area code with money that he thinks Price would sign with Toronto.    There's enough sources now on this idea that I'd like to believe that part is true.  

There's not going to be many opportunities like this for the Jays.   Think about it.....  A top free agent starting pitcher with David Price's track record prefers Toronto‎.   Usually the Jays are in the position where they have to offer a free agent more money to entice them.   In this case, they probably just have to be in the ballpark, or area code as JD would say.   

Bob McCown made some compelling arguments a couple nights ago on PTS of how important the Blue Jays are to Rogers brand image.    He believes that even if the Blue Jays lose money, that loss may pale in comparison to the value they add to their brand when successful.    We saw what happened in 2015.   Sold out crowds....merchandise sales through the roof....insane tv ratings.    There's a good business case that spending on David Price is a good investment.   There's certainly risk putting that much money into 1 player, but if you are ever going to take that risk, Price is the kind of guy with the track record to warrant it.   

In other words, I'd really hate to see this fall apart cause the the Jays are offering say 6/$180M instead of 7/$210M.   Those are just wild guesses of course but you get the idea.  

In any case, I suppose all of this talk of a possibility is better than no possibility.   Let's see what happens.