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Price is actually pitching better this year than he ever has. He's striking out more batters per nine innings and walking fewer than he ever has, he's just been horrendously unlucky on both BABIP and HRs. You can't look at raw numbers and make assumptions, especially in a sample size of like 10 starts.
His four-seamer velocity is the same as it was last year, but he took one MPH off his two-seamer, so it looks like his velocity has dropped when it really hasn't.
He would likely dominate in the NL. That said, trading Miller and OT when James Shields went for a prospect like Taveras alone is just asinine, and that doesn't take into account the $20 million per he would command in an extension.
I wouldn't trade Miller for Price straight up, let alone all this other nonsense.
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