Nerds.

Dave Dombrowski has gone and done it. This is a bad move, like Carl Crawford or John Lackey bad. There are players who are made to succeed in a place like Boston and there are players who wilt under the bright lights like tulips. David Price is a tulip.

It's not that I think he will be a bad clubhouse guy or that I don't trust David's (the real one) ability it make friends. I just don't trust Mr. Price's ability to not be the whiny-baby we all know that he is. The sharks will be circling and it'll go down-hill from there.

At least if the opt-out information is true, it'll only be three years before he high-tails it to friendlier climes (even, I suspect, if it means leaving money on the table to be free of Boston).