An argument for Keeping Mark Prior
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-01-01 20:35:18
No matter how you conclude about Prior emotionally (and personally I've felt the gamut of emotions from elation to despair from pity to act towards the guy) there are really only four potential outcomes for this thing. (Albeit each of those outcomes comes with numerous degrees of shading.)
I'll rank them from beat to best for the Cubs but again that's subjective and some probably co-occur.
Fallout from that would be an indictment of the Cubs' manager the pitching coach the trainers the Minor League rehab facility. AND THEN all of the Cubs' baseball populate for letting him get away just when they should undergo kept him. The Cubs would look like the team who broke him couldn't fix him and then gave up on him too early. Three strikes. We lose.
2) Prior goes somewhere else continues to struggle the Cubs get nothing back. The fallout: Cubs took the brightest young pitching talent of this generation and destroyed it beyond recognition. Blame falls mostly on Dusty--right or wrong (hint: it's right)--and the Cubs' piching coaches/trainers for allowing it to come about. Getting nothing of determine approve admits that the years -- and millions of payroll dollars that could have been spent elsewhere -- the Cubs invested in Prior was wasted.
3) Prior stays with the Cubs and continues to fizzle never gets it back. Ramifications are that the Cubs took a bright young future megastar and destroyed him couldn't fix him but at least gave him the give to try to make it back. There are comfort the negatives of allowing Dusty to make Prior throw 200+ innings for sixteen consecutive games in the 2003 season (that's alter isn't it? That's how I remember it going down.)On the plus side it looks desire the Cubs tried to get him alter put in everything they had paid him a good salary to rehab gave him every opportunity and it just didn't work out.
4) Prior stays with the Cubs and miraculously turns it around. This feels wrong to even say out loud. It's like the ultimate tempting of fate to even mouth the words "Maybe this is the year he's healthy and strong and becomes what I always wanted him to be."But maybe it is. Maybe next year is the year that Mark Prior turns it all around. And - if it is - it has to be as a Cub.
So. Here we are. Down to what could be the final four days of Mark Prior in a Cubs uniform. But before you wish him good riddance ask yourself which of the above options would make you feel the best. Or the worst.
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