2009 Wallace Award Watch list announced

...player each year. The previous winners of the award include: 2008 Buster Posey | Florida State 2007 David Price | Vanderbilt 2006 Brad Lincoln | Houston 2005 Alex Gordon | Nebraska 2004 Kurt Suzuki | Cal State Fullerton To...

That's Debatable: Phillies or Rays?

...the Phillies have the best starter in the series in Cole Hamels, and a better bullpen. David Price is a huge X factor for Tampa Bay, but the rest of the Rays' bullpen appears...

Rays of Light

...finishing dead last will get you). The team will most certainly find a way to get David Price, the first overall pick out of Vanderbilt in '07, into the starting rotation next year. Switch...

Chat with Sean McAdam

...and Matt Garza (acquired from the Twins for Delmon Young) provides depth. Should No. 1 pick David Price and fellow prospects Jake McGee and Wade Davis also continue to develop, the Rays would finally...

Chat | January 31, 2008

Yanks improve rotation, keep young talent

...a free agent. It was such an extraordinary price that even some folks in the Mets' organization...strongest it has been since 1998, when Pettitte, David Cone, David Wells and Orlando Hernandez filled out...

2009 NEXT RUNNER-UP: DAVID PRICE

In his 10 big league games, David Price blew away some seriously heavy hitters: Magglio Ordoñez, A-Rod, Chase Utley. But what's that...

A photo gallery of ESPN The Magazine's four NEXT 2009 finalists

NEXT 2009: THE WINNER AND RUNNERS-UP

Synergy Alert: Watch E:60's "NEXT" show tonight on ESPN2

...ET on ESPN2, E:60 will devote an entire episode to NEXT, with features on finalists David Price, Joey Logano, Matt Ryan and Ricky Rubio, as well as pieces on some of our other...

In his 10 big league games, David Price blew away some seriously heavy hitters: Magglio Ordoñez, A-Rod, Chase Utley. But what's that...

BREAKING: ESPN THE MAG'S 2009 NEXT ATHLETE REVEALED

...a winner has finally been elected. Thanks to your votes, Matt Ryan edged out Ricky Rubio, David Price and Joey Logano to take home the crown (Past NEXT winners have included Adrian Peterson, Kobe...

The Baseball Beat

...dominantly left-handed lineup needs one more right-handed bat to balance it out. With lefty David Price ready to join the Tampa rotation, the Rays will trade one of their young starters for...

"Who's NEXT?" will be answered later this morning!

...As ya know by now, ESPN The Magazine nominated four athletes for NEXT 2009: Matt Ryan, David Price, Ricky Rubio and Joey Logano. The votes are in, have been tallied, and we know who...

Relief Efforts: Offseason bullpen roundup

Eric Karabell takes stock of each team's closer situation heading into the 2009 season, which will be updated constantly through the winter.

The NEXT: NEXT?

...the thing: NEXT candidates should be guys who haven't "arrived" yet, ideally (you could argue David Price had arrived when we nominated him, but he hasn't been a starter yet) and Green...

NEXT 2009: Google Trends

...Brad Pitt. Thing seems pretty accurate, no? Here's a four-way comparison between Matt Ryan, David Price, Joey Logano and Ricky Rubio—i.e. the NEXT 2009 candidates. Voting ends today. Does...