David Price will get paid. If Price does nothing for the rest of 2017 he will get paid. If Price blows his arm out and is never a dependable pitcher he will get paid. Price is by all accounts an incredibly hard worker who takes his craft quite seriously. In fact, the future of the season, of Boston Red Sox president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski and of manager John Farrell may hinge on Price.
The forearm strain is often a precursor to the little words that mention a former pitcher who became patient zero in arm reconstruction for pitchers.