Pryor went to baseball powerhouses Cleveland State Community College and Tennessee Technological U. He is the 2nd player EVER from TTU to make the bigs (Eric Sabol threw 61 innings about a decade ago) and the third ever from Cleveland State (Jason Davis actually threw a few hundred Beavan-level innings).
Suffice it to say Pryor is the best arm in the history of both schools combined. He's never struggled when healthy. His rocky start to his minors career was after injury and in a crazy environment, and once he was promoted to AA he destroyed everyone. He still hasn't given up a AAA earned run, so it's not like he was learning anything there.
If a guy can see 3 sliders in one at-bat and hit a fourth for a HR, then that's good knowledge to have. You know how many HRs he gave up in 50+ innings in AA and AAA combined? ZERO.
How many earned runs at all? FIVE.
Knowing he can't throw 4 sliders to a hitter - or at least not 4 sliders to those locations - is valuable data he was not able to get in the minor leagues.
The improvement of a 100-MPH-with-tailing-action pitcher has begun.
~G
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