Snippet below from Jeff Passan of Yahoo Sports:
TORONTO – One of these days, when he's allowed to say what he really thinks – when David Price, someone with hundreds of millions of dollars on the line, doesn't have to muzzle himself, as if showing a whit of self-preservation is some sort of a sin – he'll give a better sense of his feelings about the Toronto Blue Jays' treatment of him this postseason. For now, all he offers are clipped retorts, far from the general ebullience that is perhaps his most recognizable trait. Price sounds confused. He has every right to be that, and angry, too, at how the Blue Jays have turned their best pitcher into a dancing marionette.
Price left Rogers Centre on Wednesday night with giant tooth imprints on his tongue. In the aftermath of the Toronto Blue Jays'
season-saving 7-1 victory against Kansas City in Game 5 of the American League Championship Series, the focus should've been on Troy Tulowitzki's bases-clearing double and Marco Estrada
neutering a Royals lineup that whacked 30 hits the previous two games and just about anything other than somebody getting up in the bullpen during the sixth inning.
Instead, the continued misuse of Price stood front and center as the series shifted back to Kansas City. There was Price, again, in a repeat of the division series, when Blue Jays manager John Gibbons inexplicably used him in relief during a game Toronto led by six runs. Price never got into Game 5 on Wednesday, spared by Kansas City's inability to create a scenario that would have goaded Gibbons into deploying him again. It got close enough that Price started getting loose in the bullpen, even as Toronto led 5-0, as setup man Aaron Sanchez and closer Roberto Osuna loomed with fresh arms, as using Price would've meant going to Marcus Stroman in Game 6 on short rest and using someone else – Price? R.A. Dickey? Cliff Pennington? – in Game 7 on even shorter rest.
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