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Jon Garland Signs with the Padres

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Written by Steve Adler

Tuesday, 26 January 2010 14:47

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Jon Garland Signs with the Padres

Jon Garland a 10 year vertern Starting Pitcher has agreed to terms. Of the available names still left in the free agent pool Garland was one of the few that still had some notoriety. With Ben Sheets signing with Oakland earlier today it appears that we may see other dominoes fall as well. Garland is not a spectacular pitcher and the last time he had an ERA under four was in 2005, but what Garland will do is eat innings.

Garland grew up in Southern Californaia in Valencia, he was the 10th overall pick of the Chicago Cubs in the 1987 amature draft. Jon has played most of his major league career with the White Sox before being traded to the Angels in 2008. While with the White Sox Jon won a world series ring and a young Padres team will be able to take advantage of his experience and his reliability. The past eight seasons he has had double digit wins and thrown over 190 innings in each season. A welcome addition to a Padres staff that cycled through over 13 starting pitchers last season.

Jon Garland's Career Numbers
Year	Team	G	GS	W	L	SV	BS	HLD	CG	SHO	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP	BAA
2000	CWS	15	13	4	8	0	0	1	0	0	69.2	82	55	50	10	40	42	6.46	1.75	.292
2001	CWS	35	16	6	7	1	0	2	0	0	117.0	123	59	48	16	55	61	3.69	1.52	.277
2002	CWS	33	33	12	12	0	0	0	1	1	192.2	188	109	98	23	83	112	4.58	1.41	.258
2003	CWS	32	32	12	13	0	0	0	0	0	191.2	188	103	96	28	74	108	4.51	1.37	.260
2004	CWS	34	33	12	11	0	0	0	1	0	217.0	223	125	118	34	76	113	4.89	1.38	.269
2005	CWS	32	32	18	10	0	0	0	3	3	221.0	212	93	86	26	47	115	3.50	1.17	.255
2006	CWS	33	32	18	7	0	0	0	1	1	211.1	247	112	106	26	41	112	4.51	1.36	.294
2007	CWS	32	32	10	13	0	0	0	2	1	208.1	219	114	98	19	57	98	4.23	1.32	.270
2008	LAA	32	32	14	8	0	0	0	1	0	196.2	237	116	107	23	59	90	4.90	1.51	.303
2009	LAD	6	6	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	36.1	37	16	11	4	9	26	2.72	1.27	.262
2009	ARI	27	27	8	11	0	0	0	1	0	167.2	188	90	80	19	52	83	4.29	1.43	.286
Career		311	288	117	102	1	0	3	10	6	1829.1	1944	992	898	228	593	960	4.42	1.39	.275

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+1 # 2010-01-26 15:12

Feeling better about the rotation. Like it

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# mickeykoke 2010-01-26 18:52

This is a great sign for the Padres. It allows the youngsters to ease into the rotation (Richard and Latos not exactly established innings guys) and it also allows the Padres to have an “innings eater” which they desperately needed.

John Garland is also an insurance policy to some degree because of the question of Chris Young and to some degree even Kevin Correia, coming off a career year. Gallagher and the other youngsters can continue tutelage in AAA and Garland can bring some VET presence to spacious Petco were he should flourish.

Then the icing on the cake, only 4.7 Million, how is this NOT a good deal?