9. David Price – Detroit Tigers
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You can guarantee one thing in the 2016 free agent class and it’s that David Price will get the biggest contract. As one of baseball’s best pitchers over the last five seasons, teams are already excitedly rubbing their hands together at the mere thought of having Price pitch for them.
Currently, Price is a member of the Tigers where he was just 4-4 with a 3.59 ERA in 11 starts in 2014 after joining them in a trade from the Tampa Bay Rays. There’s a chance that in spite of how he pitches in 2015, Price ends the year somewhere other than Detroit. The Tigers have so much money wrapped up in other places that Price is probably just not affordable. He’s likely to average in the neighborhood of $30 million a season for an extended period of time.
The price for Price is going to make his bank account look really nice.