David Price is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB).
Price was selected first overall in the 2007 Major League Baseball draft by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and made his MLB debut in September 2008.
Price pitched as a help pitcher during the Rays’ gone through the 2008 end of the season games.
Weeks after his first debut in the major associations, he acquired a save in Game 7 of the 2008 American League Championship Series (ALCS), assisting the Rays with arriving at their first World Series.
Price turned into a full-time starting pitcher in 2009. In his subsequent full season, he was named the American League starter for the 2010 All-Star Game and completed second in the deciding in favor of the 2010 Cy Young Award. He won the honor in 2012.
The Rays exchanged Price to the Tigers during the 2014 season. Whenever the Tigers dropped out of the postseason race in 2015, they traded him for the Blue Jays, who won their division and progressed to the ALCS.
That the following off-season, the Red Sox signed Price to a franchise-record seven-year, $217 million contract.
David Price Children: Meet Xavier and Zoe Isabel
David Price and his wife, Tiffany have two children. The couple’s first child was born in May 2017. Their second child was born in August 2019.
David Price Salary: How Much Does David Price Make?
David Price takes home an annual average salary of $30 million as a professional baseball pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers.