ANAHEIM, Calif. – The middle of last summer, the gossip did finally come true and David Price was traded away.
Alex Cobb turned to and said, not with hubris but with gravity, "You know this is ours now, right?"
Eight months after, Cobb would have Tommy John surgery.
One by one, they've gone – James Shields to Kansas City, Price to Detroit, Matt Moore to surgery and yearlong recovery, Cobb with him, leaving the Tampa Bay Rays, depending on how you like your numbers, with the best pitching staff in American League.