David Price to give Dodgers minor league players $1000

David Price (Keith Allison, Wikimedia Commons)

According to the Associated Press on Saturday, Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher David Price of Murfreesboro, Tennessee has made a significant financial donation to the Dodgers organization. In the process, he will become the favourite Dodgers player to many minor leaguers in their system.

Price has agreed to give back $1,000 to 220 players who are currently minor leaguers for the Dodgers. The generous donation will help players on the Oklahoma City Dodgers (AAA) and Tulsa Drillers (AA). It will be interesting to see how many of the Dodgers minor league affiliates in either A ball or Rookie Ball will benefit from Price’s generosity.

In all, Price is giving back $220,000 from his contract to help players currently in need. One person who would oppose Price’s decision would be famous baseball agent Scott Boras, who has already opposed players giving back any money to the owners, as Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players’ Association negotiate a contract for the 2020 regular season.

Price, a five-time all-star, 2012 Cy Young Award winner, and 2018 World Series champion, was traded from the Boston Red Sox to the Los Angeles Dodgers on February 10, 2020 with star outfielder Mookie Betts and cash considerations for Alex Verdugo, and prospects Connor Wong and Jeter Downs. If Downs is able to make the Red Sox organization, it will be interesting how popular he will be with the Red Sox fans. That is because Downs’s first name is Jeter, the namesake of former New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter, who is currently the part-owner of the Miami Marlins.

Price meanwhile has a base salary of $32 million in 2020. It will be interesting to see how much money he will lose this season if there is no MLB season or there is a limited MLB season because of coronavirus.