This is the way the world ends.
This is the way the world ends.
This is the way the world ends.
This is the way the world ends.
This is the way the world ends.
This is the way the world ends.
All of us are thinking of making a Dusty ruined Prior joke and someone needs to say this so we can all move on:
Dusty ruined him again!
There it is done.
In realty, I am disappointed I was rooting for Prior to be able to get healthy. It must be so frustrating for him.
You've got to respect the guy. Hasn't pitched in a major league game since August 10, 2006, and he could have given up a long time ago, yet he's still out there trying every year. And hell he's got a business degree from USC, it'd probably make more sense financially to just give up on baseball.
“I don’t care,” Votto said of passing his friend and former teammate. “He’s in the past. Bye-bye, Jay.”
RedEye (06-28-2013)
As of today, Prior is Latos' top comp on baseball reference. Just a fun fact.
remdog (06-29-2013)
Not sure if this was posted back in December.
Ending attempt at comeback, Prior retires
By Andrew Simon / MLB.com | 12/9/2013 10:38 P.M. ET
After a series of injuries and several comeback attempts, it appears Mark Prior is ready to call it a career.
The right-hander, now 33, was in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., on Monday for the Winter Meetings, where he told reporters he was retiring. Prior also indicated he could take a job in the Padres' front office, although the club has not confirmed it.
The San Diego native signed a Minor League deal with the Reds during Spring Training last season and made seven relief appearances at Triple-A Louisville, posting a 4.66 ERA over 9 2/3 innings. But he sustained a right shoulder strain and went on the disabled list in late April. He did not appear in another game and was released in June.
The Cubs made Prior the second overall pick of the 2001 First-Year Player Draft out of USC, and he made his Major League debut the next May, at age 21. After going 6-6 with a 3.32 ERA in 19 starts as a rookie, Prior enjoyed a breakout '03 season. In 30 starts, he went 18-6 with a 2.43 ERA and 245 strikeouts in 211 1/3 innings. An All-Star selection, he finished third in the National League Cy Young Award voting, then posted a 2.31 ERA in three postseason outings.
The injuries then started to pile up. Prior made 21 starts in 2004, 27 in '05 and just nine in '06. His last big league appearance came Aug. 10, 2006, and he then had reconstructive shoulder surgery.
Prior tried to make it back to the Majors, pitching in the Minors for the Rangers, Yankees, Red Sox and Reds.
He finishes his career with a 42-29 record and a 3.51 ERA in 106 Major League starts. He also struck out 10.4 batters per nine innings, the second-highest rate in history for a starting pitcher with at least 500 career innings, trailing only Randy Johnson.
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article/chc/...&vkey=news_chc
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He was a Hollow Man.
It is on the whole probable that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it. Carl Jung.
It's a shame the original Wily Taveras signing thread is locked and can't be bumped.
This is the dead land
This is cactus land
Here the stone images
Are raised, here they receive
The supplication of a dead man’s hand
Under the twinkle of a fading star.
Few realize that Eliot was talking about washed-up veterans being invited to spring training in Arizona.
Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow.
It is on the whole probable that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it. Carl Jung.
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assuming 10 healthy years, I saw Prior with 180 wins, 3.30 ERA, 9+ K/9, 5:1 K/BB and 20 home runs. it's a shame he could stay healthy. I'm still fascinated by his confidence AND ABILITY to work on his change-up at the Major League level...especially during a playoff game.
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