Does anyone else remember that Prior had/has legitimate injuries? From my tally, he has 1 current problem that is not accident related (loose shoulder, etc) that -- and I'm speaking from experience here -- causes an extreme amount of pain and has an extremely long recovery process when any sort of tweaking, tearing or anything else occurs. Part of the problem with such injuries is that slight adjustments are made to mask the pain. When the proper rehabilitation takes place, there is a lot of both physical and mental work to be done. The physical is building back the strength (and it is grueling), and the mental is trying to forget all of the intense pain and trick your body into going back to the old way of throwing because it's not going to hurt anymore. That doesn't make him soft, it makes him human.