To bad, there is a point were you just have to feel bad for the guy.



SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - San Diego Padres pitcher Mark Prior will undergo season-ending surgery on his injured right shoulder, the latest medical setback to a once-promising career.

Padres manager Bud Black announced the decision to operate before Sunday's game against the San Francisco Giants. Prior, one of the top young pitchers in the game for the Chicago Cubs just a few years ago, has not pitched in the majors since Aug. 10, 2006.
He had been trying to make a comeback with his hometown Padres this season, but his rehab process was shut down at extended spring training about two weeks ago when he had more soreness in the shoulder. Prior, 27, had surgery on the same shoulder in April 2007 while with the Cubs.

"I can't imagine how frustrated he is," Black said. "It looked like everything was on course. Then to have this happen I'm sure is extremely frustrating. I'm upset for him just because there was such confidence from him about how he felt."

The operation to repair the anterior capsule in Prior's shoulder will be performed at Scripps Clinic as early as this week by team orthopedics Dr. Heinz Hoenecke and Dr. Jan Fronek.

The Padres won't know when, or if, Prior will be able to pitch again until after the operation.

"I think that will be determined once they go in and see what they have to repair," Black said.

Prior began throwing in January and was slowly making progress in hopes of a return to the majors. As recently as last month, the Padres still hoped Prior could make it back to the mound this season. But he never made it far enough to appear in a game at any level.

"You never know until you really step up the intensity," Black said. "And the fullest test of intensity is game action and he didn't get that far."

Prior, who is 42-29 with a 3.51 ERA in his injury-plagued career, last pitched in 2006 when he went 1-6 with a 7.21 ERA in nine games for the Cubs. He was the second overall pick in the 2001 amateur draft out of Southern California and went 18-6 with a 2.43 ERA in 2003, finishing third in NL Cy Young Award balloting in his first full season in the majors.

But he has made only 57 starts since 2003 because of injuries to his shoulder, elbow, oblique and Achilles

It really is too bad. All that potential down the drain.

The Twins were ridiculed for taking Mauer over Prior. Looks like they made the right decision.

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Yeah. Well I'm glad he wasn't able to fool them long enough to get that 100 million dollar deal. Glad he broke down before he was able to be a free agent.

Prior always seemed like a dick. I don't feel bad for him. Plus I agree Nas. He had to be a steroid guy.

Looks like he didn't know how to take them cuz he broke down quick and often.

He did fool them long enough to get that 10 million. If he invests that money he can go a long way with it. But he could have made 10x that much.

Agreed.

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You got a lil Favre Fan in you, eh?

I thought he was going to be a perennial All-star and Cy Young candidate. Perhaps my greatest fear coming into this season, was that he would have come back about this time of year and still win 12-15 games and dominate as he once did in 2003. He never seemed to really get much joy from playing a game that he was so outstanding at. I never understood why that was. But I'm glad to see that my worst fears for this season will not be realized.

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I could not care less about Prior. That being said, I am so freakin glad that this is happening to the Gdamned PADRES, whom I hate with a passion.

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Lots of people called him out for the roids and the only reason I did not agree, is because I think he is such a huge pussy he would never take them.

All those years of never going under the knife, always trying to get better with therapy while K Wood was telling anyone with a knife to start cutting if it got him back faster.

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