Encarnacion and Bautista will make $24-million - combined. Miguel Cabrera, who was second in OPS, will make US$28-million for Detroit in 2016. Encarnacion was fifth in the AL last season in on-base plus slugging percentage, while Bautista was eighth. They are really good contracts, is the point. They are team-friendly, but the team harbours a deep, secret love. Bautista and Edwin Encarnacion have had the “team-friendly” modifier attached to their contracts for so long it has become routine to think of them as decent bargains. Article contentīut the main reason Toronto fans should hope that management makes a serious run at Price is because of what it would say about what the new front office intends to do with the 2016 roster. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.

290 batting average on balls in play Estrada had a 3.13 ERA and a. Price posted his 2.45 ERA in 2015 despite a. His regular season performance is far more predictable than, say, Marco Estrada’s, and not just because Price has been good for longer. Having Price in the Toronto rotation dramatically increases its chances of making the playoffs, and then whatever happens there happens. His ERA was best in the American League among starters, as was his Wins Above Replacement, while his strikeout rate was fifth and his home-run rate was third. The reason you want Price on your staff is because, and we don’t want to make this too complicated, he’s very good at pitching baseballs.

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