Los Angeles Dodgers: Why David Price would be a good addition

1. Price’s contract is not as bad as it seems

A contract that pays a player $32 million definitely seems like it is an awful contract for a team, especially with Price’s original contract with the Red Sox being a record-setter at the time. However, with only three more years under contract, this is not all that bad.

The problem for the Dodgers is not the salary, they have the means to creep up by the luxury tax threshold. The problem for the team and the reason why they have not made past moves is the years on a contract.

The team is looking to the future and it knows that it does not want to be in a situation similar to the Chicago Cubs or the Red Sox where they have to trade their homegrown stars away because of poor decisions a few years earlier.

Price won’t conflict with the team signing the likes of Cody Bellinger, Corey Seager or Walker Buehler to a contract extension (if Seager is still even on the team by then).

Sure, he is going to be making more than he is valued at, but the starting pitching market is very thin in the next few seasons. If the Dodgers think they need to add an arm to the rotation, now is the time to do so.

I still think that the better option would be re-signing Hyun-Jin Ryu, but if Ryu signs elsewhere, the Dodgers would not be in a bad position with Price, especially considering that the team could probably get the Red Sox or another team to pay $10 million of Price’s contract for at least the first year.