Thu Dec 27, 2007, 04:32pm
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From ESPN. com:
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Mark Prior, cut loose by the Cubs earlier this month, has agreed to terms with the San Diego Padres.
In 2003, Mark Prior went 18-6 with a 2.43 ERA, was selected to the All-Star Game and finished third in the Cy Young voting. He has won just 18 games in 57 starts since.
Prior receives a one-year major league deal with a $1 million base salary. The contract, which doesn't include an option, contains incentive clauses that could take the total value of the deal to over $3 million. Prior, however, is not anticipating his season debut with the Padres until mid-to-late May.
"Mark Prior is a competitor and is working hard to regain the form that made him one of the great young pitchers in the game," general manager Kevin Towers told The Associated Press. "We are confident he is going to help us in our rotation this season. It's exciting that Mark is coming home to San Diego to pitch for the Padres."
Prior, 27, last pitched in the big leagues in 2006, and had shoulder surgery in April of 2007.
Prior figures he still has much of his career ahead of him if he can avoid injuries.
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The last sentence is, of course, the biggest problem for him.
Does this mean that JR will stop mocking the Cubbies and start in on the Pads?
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