Season-Ending Surgery For Prior

$1M is too much for a guy with 44 innings over 3 years.

He needs his mechanics reworked if he wants to pitch again.

We will see, but do you really think a team like the Yankees would have a problem paying a mil to see if he can pitch, even if its a third of the season? I don't, especially with all the rotation issues they are having. One mil for that chance, for a team with a 160+ mil payroll is well worth it.

"In other news, Sun to rise in the East tomorrow, experts say."

Priceless. I'm surprised the towel drill jokes haven't started.

Well, I think he has a degree from college in business or something, so I'm sure he can take the millions he has earned and invest them somewhere. Maybe he can latch on as a pitching coach in the minors somewhere.

If I were the GM of the Cubs, I'd be seeing what it would take to get Maddux and Brian Giles away from the Padres. They are lost and have no hope to do anything this year. I think the Cubs are a big pitcher away from being a serious WS threat.

Well, i really dont see anything wrong with signing him. Whats the hrm of a team putting him in your bullpen, maybe he does great, and anyway if he doesnt you only spent a million dollars. No big deal, even if you releae him its only 500,000.

Only so much of Prior's struggles can be blamed on Baker. Yeah, he was a terrible manager in Chicago and notorious for overworking pitchers, but there is something mentally and physically wrong with Prior.

I believe the only thing wrong with Prior were the supplements he took in college.

Wow, you know, most of us have to pay for our medical care. Oh, and if I want to work out at a really nice gym, I have to pay for my membership.

This guy actually gets paid millions of dollars to recieve medical care and work out, and, ya know what? Some other deluded team that gets conned into falling in love with his name and former potential will pay him some more millions.

Just think, if he can just get his shoulder to cooperate enough to pitch 1/3 to 1/2 of a season again, the whole saga will start all over again. Then, he can just be a professional patient for the rest of his life.

Yep, he's got a degree in business. That means he can invest the millions that he's making while teams are paying him to go to the doctor and work out, and then he can claim he's worked two jobs to support his family for a decade. After that, he can drain the Social Security system when he turns 62 or so.

He's done and washed up. It was a great move by my Cubbies to rid themselves of the problem. They just should've done it a lot sooner than they did.

Gosh a lot of venom here for prior. He's still real young, when healthy he is off the charts, his work ethic is insane and he still wants to play. He won't get another contract of 1mill and incentives for next year but someone will sign him for 2yrs and just let him rehab all next year with no expectations of him playing till the second year. It's happened before. The best option is for him to take all of next year off and just let it heal all the way. Basically he'll have two years to get healthy.