David Price is set to hit free agency after the 2015 season of Major League Baseball, or MLB. On Wednesday, reports are stating that talks between his current MLB team, the Detroit Tigers and the star pitcher’s agent, Bo McKinnis have started talking on the possible contract extensions between the two sides. Price admitted that it’s very early in the negotiations and no figures were exchanged between both sides.

Detroit Tigers beat reporter for the league’s official website, MLB.com Jason Beck updated the development on Twitter.

Price has been one of the best pitchers in the league in recent years. He has pitched for the Tampa Bay Rays in his first seven years in the league before being traded to the Tigers during the 2014 MLB season. Price is a four-time all star and won the American League Cy Young award in 2012. Price, a left-hander, has been named as the starter for Detroit to open the season replacing Justin Verlander and he’s expected to be one of the top targets in free agency after the 2015 MLB season.

Tigers general manager Dave Dombrowski said the team would make no comment until a deal is finalised, if the contract negotiations reach that point. Earlier in 2015, Price admitted that he’s open to a long-term extension in Detroit.

"I'm open for anything, to be honest. But once you have -- I guess I'm about a week short of six years in the big leagues right now -- to get that far along in the process, some of you does kind of want to wait it out, but then some of you feels like, 'Well, if they're open to doing something, you can't close any doors,” Price said in a previous article at MLB.com. “That's the way I feel. I enjoy it here. I enjoy the staff and the guys and the stadium, everything of that nature.”

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