[Klima] Even baseball's 'sure things' are gambles - Daily Breeze...Prior had everything and the scouts were unanimous. In a dirty business of bluffing and deception that would make Hamlet cry, it was virtually impossible to find someone who had a bad word to say about Prior.
He had the pitcher’s frame, a 6-foot-5, 220-pound build with calves that looked like he had stuffed bricks in his sanitary socks. He had not one power pitch, but two – a fastball he could nail a shot glass with and a curveball that was like hitting a baseball dropped from a blimp. His command was leagues above ordinary college pitchers. His mechanics, work ethic, intellect, competitiveness, and approach all scored so highly that, for the team that drafted Prior, it would be as simple as walking to the grocery store, picking him off the shelf, dropping him in the cart, and pushing him to the big leagues...
...Five years later, Prior's career hasn’t gone as expected...
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