The return of the prior Prior?

[Leroy]

FULLERTON, Calif. – Mark Prior(notes) is facing a rag-tag team called the Tijuana Cimarrones for the second time in two days. The back-to-back appearances mark a milestone in his comeback from multiple maladies and surgeries, from replacing a debilitating pocketful of if-onlys with hope.
Mark Prior has not allowed an earned run for the independent Orange County Flyers.

His stuff isn’t as sharp as the previous day, when he struck out the side on 10 pitches, all strikes. One batter walks and another belts a drive that Prior’s right fielder flags down over his shoulder at the warning track. Despite the catch, the batter touches them all as if he’d hit a home run, a goofy independent league moment that Prior does his best to ignore. He strikes out the last batter, giving him 20 in 10 innings since joining the Orange County Flyers of the Golden Baseball League nearly a month ago.

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=s ... back090110

[sighyoung]

I find this deeply disturbing.

[cards2468]

One batter walks and another belts a drive that Prior’s right fielder flags down over his shoulder at the warning track. Despite the catch, the batter touches them all as if he’d hit a home run, a goofy independent league moment that Prior does his best to ignore.

lol, wut?

[Mary1966]

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=A ... gers090310

Mark Prior(notes) will get his redemption shot at the big leagues sooner than he expected. The right-handed former phenom was acquired by the Texas Rangers on Friday from the Orange County Flyers of the independent Golden Baseball League.
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Prior, who will turn 30 on Tuesday, pitched for the Flyers for a month, striking out 22 of the 44 batters he faced in 11 innings. He did not allow an earned run and opponents batted .143 against him. Prior is in Hawaii with the Flyers and after signing a minor league contract will join the Rangers’ triple-A franchise in Oklahoma City.

[PujolJunkie]

They'll just never learn.

[TheoSqua]

If he's back to throwing 92 with movement and location it's worth checking out at least.

[sighyoung]

If he's back to throwing 92 with movement and location it's worth checking out at least.

For minimal money, it's like buying a lottery ticket. With similar odds of success.

[cpebbles]

A lottery ticket that will cost you about $80k if you decide to play it, with a substantial risk of you being stuck paying for an operation and lengthy rehab when said lottery ticket tears its labrum again.

[Spider John]

Crasnick and Heyman both tweet that Prior has signed a minor league deal with the Yankees.

[sighyoung]

Crasnick and Heyman both tweet that Prior has signed a minor league deal with the Yankees.

Cue Reuben Amaro's spit-take.