Dodgers' David Price to Retire at End of Season: 'Everything on My Body Hurts'

Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher David Price is retiring.

Price told USA Today's Bob Nightengale that it's time for him to hang up the cleats and that he hurts.

Peter Gammons reported at the start of the season that the L.A. Dodgers were looking to trade Price in order to find him a starting job again. He told Bill Plunkett of the Orange County Register that he was content in his role as a relief pitcher and that he was leaning towards retirement at the end of the season.

He decided to stay in L.A.

He has made 38 appearances in the Los Angeles Dodgers' relief corps this season and has a 2.58 earned run with 37 strikeouts. He missed a few weeks early in the season with a wrist injury after testing positive for COVID-19, and then was out again in September with another wrist injury.

Price was traded to the Dodgers in February 2020. After opting out of the 2020 season because of the COVID-19 epidemic, he made 11 starts in 39 appearances in the year 2021.

In the final year of his seven-year, $217 million contract, the five-time All-Star has a base salary of $32 million.

Price has pitched for a number of teams in his career. He had a run of nine consecutive seasons with a sub- 4.00 earned run average, and he won a World Series with the Red Sox.

Price won the American League Cy Young Award in 2012 and was named the Comeback Player of the Year after recovering from an injury.