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Baseball Musings
March 21, 2007
Prior to the DL?

According to this AP article, Mark Prior may start the season on the DL, along with Kerry Wood:

The 26-year-old Prior was 1-6 with a 7.21 ERA last year when his season was cut short by a strained right shoulder. He is 0-1 with an 18.90 ERA in two spring training appearances, allowing seven runs and eight hits in 3 1-3 innings with five strikeouts and no walks.

'How many innings has he pitched?' manager Lou Piniella asked Monday. 'You need 25 or so innings. In fairness to the person, is he going to be ready?'

Now, I understand Wood going on the DL, since he injured his triceps, but is Prior injured? I talked about this last season with Kansas City when they tried to put Greinke and Hernandez on the DL. Hernandez was just out of shape. Greinke was ill, but that was not conveyed to the public until later. Teams should not be allowed to put a player on the DL unless they are actually injured. Send him to the minors.


Posted by David Pinto at 09:06 AM | Injuries | TrackBack (0)
Comments

Prior & Wood on the DL to start the season? What are the odds of that happening.

I'm sure the Chicago sports journalists have a macro set up just for that sentence. What would be news is if they didn't start the season on the DL.

Posted by: rbj at March 21, 2007 10:23 AM

I don't think Wood is *REALLY* injured either. The Cubs have been talking about him pitching tomorrow vs the Padres.

Posted by: Rich B at March 21, 2007 02:07 PM

Isn't Prior at the point where they can't send him to the minors? I really don't know, but he seems like he'd be out of options at this point. If so, their only options would seem to be a DL stint, trade or release and you can see why they'd choose DL.

Again, I don't know for sure that he's out of options. Anyone?

Posted by: TK at March 21, 2007 03:26 PM

The Cubs are the most secretive team in baseball about injuries, at least when it comes to these two guys. Check out what they've said in the past about their respective conditions, they have never told the truth. So why believe them now? And is it really a surprise they won't even break camp with the team? SSDD with these two. Next.....

Posted by: Rosie at March 22, 2007 12:49 AM
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