Mark Prior
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"Mark William Prior" is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He pitched for the Chicago Cubs from 2002 to 2006 in a career that was marred by injuries. His repertoire of pitches included a mid-90s mph fastball, a curveball, a slurve, and a changeup. He is currently working in the front office of the San Diego Padres Organization.

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This is his job. I respect the fact he wants to come back for the last two or three weeks of the season. He's worked hard to come back. Anything is possible. If he comes to the plate three or four times a game, he's going to have an impact on the game.

It's a cool idea, ... A lot of them come from the inner city or broken families where they might not get an education or be able to afford an education. They're not just taken away from their parents -- their parents are involved. There's one home for girls and two for boys, and they have a graduate student or social worker there who are like houseparents.

It's not about personal achievements or personal wins, it's about winning as a team. We haven't won as many games as we would like as team.

Henry had a great day. I'm glad he had a good day, especially after his birthday.

It's nice but it's not about personal achievements or personal wins -- it's about winning as a team.

Heather and I have gone up there [to the homes] and just hung out, ... The kids are great. They're really motivated and it's something they want to do. One kid was doing junior senator stuff and working at camps. It's really fun to hang out with them.

He started out not very sharp and he had 37 pitches in the first inning, ... That's almost three innings worth and we were debating whether or not to send him out in the seventh or not but he wanted to pitch and he ended the game strong.

I was probably a little tired. I was looking for a ground ball and I got it and it took a bad hop.