Amid David Price trade rumors, Yankees, Detroit Tigers have history

Since then, the teams have completed five trades, the latest in this past offseason.

That three-team deal may allow Los Angeles to make a bigger play for Price.

Not that it took Philadelphia forever to deal Cole Hamels, but if you check the timeline, I’m pretty sure the Phillies’ agonizingly protracted trade talks date back well before the arrival of the Liberty Bell in Philly.

You don’t lay out that kind of dough unless you’re all in for the World Series, and being that it’s obvious the Dodgers are swinging for the fences and believe their window is now, at this point, they have to corral Price. They are without Hyun-jin Ryu and Brandon McCarthy for the rest of the season.

So the Dodgers used their money and the creativity of the newly formed, highest-paid baseball operations department in the sport to try to solve the issue. Putting it bluntly, a Dodgers rotation including Price would be flat-out unfair.

All of this might be a factor after the season, since Leake is a free agent, and the Giants planned on pursuing him over the winter even if they didn’t acquire him via trade.

Nightengale adds that the New York Yankees, Toronto Blue Jays and Houston Astros all intend to make serious offers for Price. Price should return a solid package to Detroit, especially if Ken Rosenthal is right in saying that the only reason Price’s market was limited a year ago was due to the $20 million everyone knew he had coming to him in 2015.

Morse, a disappointment after signing a two-year, $16 million contract in the winter, was among the commitments the Dodgers absorbed.

Olivera received a $28 million signing bonus and $2 million for 2015, so the Braves would be responsible for far less than the overall total.

The Rangers were reported during the past week as one of the favorites for Hamels along with the Los Angeles Dodgers and now he is on his way to Texas. That leaves Price, where the only uncertainty was whether the Detroit Tigers would admit that they probably needed to be sellers at the deadline given their minor league and future contract situations.

After the game, Dombrowski told reporters: “We’re looking at it more as rebooting going into next season”.

Being that none of those names is David Price, and none of those teams is called the Detroit Tigers, the Dodgers have some significant work to do with less than 48 hours until the deadline.

Cespedes could be viewed as the best bat now in the market if teams favor him over San Diego’s Justin Upton. Now they need a closer.