October 23, 2007
Setting the Stage
What is Mark Prior's condition:
They would like to keep Prior, but what complicates matters is that the right-hander will be a free agent after the 2008 season. Let's say the Cubs sign him for next year, and he isn't able to pitch until August -- and then choses free agency and leaves for another team. That means the Cubs would've paid him for two months of work. He received $3.575 million in 2007 and didn't make one big league start. The Cubs have invested a lot of money in the right-hander, and in a perfect world, a two-year deal with incentives through 2009 would make more sense. The question becomes whether Prior will accept that.
Christopher Gialloreto sent the link and this:
This is how they do it. Who the heck ever said anything about August?! They just slip that in there in a few of Crappy Muskat's stupid columns that no one reads anyway and then it's old news that he wasn't going to be ready come April when he's not pitching. What a joke.
Of course, at this point Prior's turned into Carl Pavano. Would any team sign him as a free agent at this point? And if they did, wouldn't most of the money have to come from incentives?
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I can think of a certain team in his hometown that could use Prior at the back end of their rotation (assuming the city is still standing by then).
Next "mailbag", the muskrat will have a, ahem, clarification, and then spout typical Pravda-esque crap.
But it's the truth, or close to it - forget about Prior, if you haven't already.
We can't just forget about Prior. Not yet. It's too hard. He was going to be the face of the franchise for two decades. He was never supposed to get hurt. His mechanics were too perfect. And he was only supposed to get better. I let out an audible groan every time I read something like this, which for the past few years seems to always come right when you think he is about ready to get back on track. Even now there is the hope that he will be more Chris Carpenter than Carl Pavano (and btw David, Pavano never had a ceiling like Prior). Let's just chalk this up the Carrie being retarded (seems to be a consensus among Cubs fans.
We can't just forget about Prior. Not yet. It's too hard. He was going to be the face of the franchise for two decades. He was never supposed to get hurt. His mechanics were too perfect. And he was only supposed to get better. I let out an audible groan every time I read something like this, which for the past few years seems to always come right when you think he is about ready to get back on track. Even now there is the hope that he will be more Chris Carpenter than Carl Pavano (and btw David, Pavano never had a ceiling like Prior). Let's just chalk this up the Carrie being retarded (seems to be a consensus among Cubs fans.