A favorite has emerged in the Red Sox’s search for a pitching coach to succeed the reassigned Dana LeVangie. The club’s minor league pitching performance coordinator, Dave Bush, is the “clear front-runner” to take over as its pitching coach, Alex Speier of the Boston Globe reports. The Red Sox could appoint Bush to the position “within days,” according to Speier.
Along with Bush, the Red Sox are known to have interviewed ex-Reds manager Bryan Price for their pitching coach position. The team has reportedly focused on five candidates for the role, though the identities of the other three remain unclear. Regardless, it appears Bush is on the verge of beating all of them out for the job. The 39-year-old has been a coach in the organization since the beginning of the 2017 season.
While Boston bigwigs have grown familiar with Bush in recent years, he’s better known to most baseball fans as a longtime major league right-hander. Bush spent 2004-13 with the Blue Jays, Brewers and Rangers. It now appears he’s about to oversee a Red Sox pitching staff that, like the team as a whole, fell short of expectations in 2019. However, with Chris Sale, David Price, Eduardo Rodriguez and Nathan Eovaldi in place, Bush can take solace in the fact that most of Boston’s rotation looks set going into next season.
I wish they would resign Porcello.
Nope not worth it
Would sign him if he agreed to a pay cut.
Not even for a cheap salary not worth it
He’s an ok #5…. typically you slot either a dependable, if unspectacular, workhorse there or a young unproven rookie. We don’t have the latter what with the decision to use ours in the pen. so the question is finding a cheap former.
I’d be ok with cello on a 2 yr 15m total (7.5 per) pact with some performance escalators based on cy voting placememt in the top 10 and top 5.
He’s Junk
Depends on the salary. But there is absolutely value in the 180-200 IP he brings every year.
Well there’s a name I haven’t seen in quite some time. I vaguely remember when he came kind of close to pitching a no-hitter in one of his first few starts as a rookie.
He will always be a name to remember with the Brewers because in 2008 he was the first starter to get a playoff win since 1982! Small victories are large in the mind when your team misses the playoffs for a quarter century.
Trade Price ( his age and salary do not match his production) and get a decent minor leaguer for him. It would help the Sox rebuild their farm system. A team going into the post season next year would gladly take on Price.
Red Sox still got to eat some money if they’re going to trade him. That’s the problem with these big money contracts.
And the problem with that is it only works if existing salary is larger than what you include in the trade plus your replacement cost.
1) I’m doubtful his would come out ahead even for equal production
2) you’ve already got a hole at #4/5 in the rotation for sure, why add another at #3
3) He’s recovering from surgery. Return is even lower, risk is higher, paydown would be greater.
He and eck will need to coexist a few more years
Would need to eat close to 20M per year X 3.
Price is owed $96 million over the next 3 seasons, which is a lot for a pitcher who was worth 6.2 fWAR the past 3 seasons combined. For a lot less money, a team can bring in Tanner Roark, who has been worth 7 fWAR the past 3 seasons. combined..
Yeah, despite his 2018 postseason, he was not a good FA deal for Boston.
Worthy because his career stats align with the sox at least.
Removal of a cyst is not a big deal. Price is not compromised by that surgery. He should be movable by paying down $11MM a year, making him a 3/60MM signing for the new team.
When you said removal of a cyst is not a big deal I thought you were referring to getting rid of Price. LOL
PS – One problem. He is malignant.
Dude paying someone $11 a year to play somewhere else is a lot of money. I don’t see it being worth it at this point; just keep him and let him anchor the next playoff team 2 or 3 years down the road as the veteran arm. Hope him and eck get over their spat.
Price ain’t anchoring anything 2-3 years down the road. Nothing.