{"playerId":1864,"percentChange":0,"averageDraftPosition":22.4,"percentOwned":100,"playerRaterSEASON":-1.6,"mostRecentNews":{"news":"Price (triceps) is scheduled to play catch Sunday and Monday before throwing a bullpen session Tuesday, Joe Smith of the Tampa Bay Times reports.","spin":"Price appears to be building his strength back up, as he threw a bullpen and a simulated game earlier this week, and he's set to play catch Sunday. He will then increase his distance Monday and follow that up with another bullpen Tuesday, and while the team has not yet scheduled a rehab start, it sounds like Price could be sent out for one if his session Tuesday goes smoothly.","date":"Sun Jun 16"},"fullName":"David Price","seasonOutlook":{"outlook":"The reigning American League Cy Young Award winner, Price is a pitcher who was still trending upward statistically even as he concluded his outstanding 2012 campaign. Consider that he was 14-for-15 in quality starts with nine wins, a 2.20 ERA, 0.98 WHIP and 108 strikeouts the second half of the season, and from a year-over-year standpoint, he has increased both his strikeout-to-walk ratio and his average fastball velocity in each of the past three seasons. Oh, toss in the fact that his ground-ball rate has risen accordingly in the same three-year pattern, to the point that it was higher than 50 percent in 2012 (52.4, to be exact), and Price has become a high-strikeout, ground-ball-inducing dynamo, minimizing his risk of regression. Wins might be a difficult category for American League East pitchers -- Price's 20 carried a healthy chunk of value in rotisserie -- but that might be the only category in which he stands to suffer any noticeable decline. Now 27, he is a member of the game's elite, and he should be drafted as such.","seasonId":2013,"date":"Wed Feb 20"},"positionRank":167}