As with Price, I’m looking through short-term ups and downs.A good 3rd starter like Lance Lynn for more certainty? The dude who has an ERA of 5.49 and a WHIP of 1.68 this season, his first in the AL?
Lynn missed spring training and unsurprisingly had a terrible April, he was then decent in May and very good in June. He was as bad in his first July start as Price was against the Yankees.
It’s also just one example of a proven veteran pitcher who signed last offseason for about a third of what Price will cost going forward. The market has changed and 1 WAR isn’t fetching $9 million in free agency anymore.