Formerly_Medford
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Prior’s shoulder looked like a bomb had gone off inside it.Mark Prior and Kerry Wood.
With Zambrano the Cubs could have had a run of dominant pitching to rival what Maddux/Glavine/Smoltz did for the Braves.
The way Dusty Baker wore them out likely precipitated the transition to religiously monitoring pitch counts and innings limits.
Wood recovered OK, and still had a very nice career, but he could have done twice as much of his arm had held up better. Prior was even better than Wood, and never got it back after his first surgery.
Then you add on his collision with Marcus Giles and taking a 100 mph liner right off his pitching elbow…