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Originally Posted by AtomicDumpling
It is true that we know now that Prior was overworked in that 2003 season and that is likely the reason he suffered a huge dropoff in performance in 2004 and never reached anywhere near to that 2003 level of performance again.
However, it wasn't until after 2003 that sabermetrics proved that overworking a pitcher in that manner is highly likely to cause injury and permanent reduction in pitching ability. You are correct that no team will ever use a pitcher that way again. But to call it abuse implies that Dusty and the pitching coach knew it was the wrong thing to do. I think they just didn't know any better. Most people didn't know any better at that time.
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He was pretty solid in 2005.