FACTS/FLUKES: Price, Teixeira, Hochevar, Napoli, Norris

Price adds more GBs to his arsenal…By taming the Red Sox last weekend with his fourth-straight PQS-5 performance, David Price (LHP, TAM) became the first 12-game winner in the AL.  Price “stumbled” a bit in 2011 with a 12-13 record, but he seems to have recovered the form that led to a 19-6 record and second place finish in the Cy Young race in 2010:

Year   IP   ERA  xERA  H%  S%  Ctl  Dom  Cmd   G/L/F    hr/9  hr/f  BPV
====  ===  ====  ====  ==  ==  ===  ===  ===  ========  ====  ====  ===
2009* 163  4.54  4.31  28  71  4.0  7.3  1.8  41/19/39   1.2   11%   49
2010  209  2.72  3.95  28  79  3.4  8.1  2.4  44/17/40   0.6    7%   76
2011  224  3.49  3.22  29  72  2.5  8.7  3.5  44/19/37   0.9   10%  111
2012  119  2.80  3.18  29  80 ...

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