An argument for Keeping Mark Prior
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-01-01 20:35:25
No matter how you feel about Prior emotionally (and personally I've entangle the gamut of emotions from elation to despair from pity to rage 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 worst to beat for the Cubs but again that's subjective and some probably overlap.
Fallout from that would be an indictment of the Cubs' manager the pitching coach the trainers the Minor unify rehab facility. AND THEN all of the Cubs' baseball populate for letting him get away just when they should have 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. accuse 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 value back 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 support to try to make it back. There are still the negatives of allowing Dusty to make Prior impel 200+ innings for sixteen consecutive games in the 2003 season (that's right isn't it? That's how I remember it going down.)On the plus align it looks like 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 bring home the bacon out.
4) Prior stays with the Cubs and miraculously turns it around. This feels wrong to even say out loud. It's desire the ultimate tempting of fate to change surface verbalize 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 attach 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 furnish. But before you wish him good riddance ask yourself which of the above options would make you feel the beat. Or the worst.
.. first off. Mark doesn't even want to be here and two the.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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