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Homer Bailey, You Might Want To Read This
Written by wrigleyville   
Thursday, 06 March 2008
ESPN.com has a story on Mark Prior's new life (including interesting color from the always amusing Greg Maddux). It also has a useful reminder of what happened to Prior: Something hasn't been right since 2003, and even then there were red flags waving all around Prior's pitch counts and innings totals. He went from 138 2/3 innings during his final year at USC to, counting the National League playoffs, 234 2/3 innings in 2003, when 29 of his 33 starts for the Cubs lasted at least 100 pitches and 22 of them exceeded 110. That's a dangerously high number of innings and pitches for a second-year player. Prior blames no one, including then-manager Dusty Baker, for those bloated numbers and the possibility, if not likelihood, that they later contributed to his shoulder problems. "Dusty caught a lot of grief for it," Prior says. "Dusty [was] in a no-win situation. I understand that. We're coming down, we're trying to make the playoffs. Let's be perfectly honest: Nothing against the guys that we had, but our bullpen was not as solid as a rock. We had a lot of good pitchers, but at times they were kind of up and down. So he was in a no-win situation as far as pitching me. I don't know if there were any internal discussions, like, 'We got to watch him.' I don't know. I wasn't in a position to say anything. I really didn't want to say anything at the time." Of course Mark didn't want to say anything - he was a young pitcher wanting to help his team win. That's what the manager, the pitching coach and the whole organization is for. Homer Bailey: Run the other way. Very fast.

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