Padres sign Jon Garland

Worth $4.7MM in 2010, plus another $600K if San Diego buys out a $6.75MM mutual option for 2011.

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He'll put up some decent #'s there and then someone will overpay him next year.

"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz

"Baseball's all that's real" - JB

by Ryin A on Jan 26, 2010 4:23 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

I think

teams have generally gotten smarter about signing average players to long term deals.

I thinks this is a nice pickup for the Padres and pitching in Petco will help Garland’s numbers tremendously.

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by coolaid on Jan 26, 2010 4:34 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Will he be their #1 or is that C. Young?

(Wife) "So what do you want to watch on the T.V.? UFC or porn?"
(Husband) "Hmm... well, porn, I guess."

by mtex on Jan 26, 2010 4:59 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

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@Ken_Rosenthal Garland: One year, $5.3M with #Padres- $4.7M plus $600,000 buyout on $6.75M mutual option for 2011.

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by Kinslerhomer on Jan 26, 2010 5:05 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

another mutual option -- those are all the rage

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

by NothinG on Jan 26, 2010 5:16 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Thome to twins

the preceding post was a great success.

by DSheppard on Jan 26, 2010 5:55 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

I can't say it better than Jeff Sullivan

LookoutLanding

Congrats to the Padres for getting 200 guaranteed innings. 200 guaranteed shitty innings.

by Brett Perryman on Jan 26, 2010 6:20 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

I know funny

and that guy is consistently funny

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

by NothinG on Jan 26, 2010 6:21 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Agreed.

"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz

"Baseball's all that's real" - JB

by Ryin A on Jan 26, 2010 6:34 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Josey Wales born on LSB July 18, 2006 Jumped the shark--That glorious day in 2008. RIP Josey Wales.
In the interest of quicker games Ron should just tell the ump he's pulling the Feliz card and the ump should rule the inning over.--Sherman McCoy on Sept. 4, 2009

by boomer1 on Jan 26, 2010 6:56 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Awesome

Morality you can fake. Fun you either have or you don't.

by lonestarJon on Jan 26, 2010 7:24 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

That's an overstatement

A hyperbole, even. Or something. Jon Garland isn’t that bad.

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by Black Francis on Jan 26, 2010 7:27 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

You overrate him so much

"I was going to say, 'You’re gay for Elvis.' But then I realized that I, too, am gay for Elvis." ~Adam J. Morris.

by Kinslerhomer on Jan 26, 2010 7:38 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

"Jon Garland isn't that bad"

…isn’t exactly a glowing endorsement. I think he’s a little more valuable than the average pitcher because of his ability to consume innings and not totally suck while doing it.

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by Black Francis on Jan 26, 2010 7:44 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

He's been

a LAIE his whole career. I don’t get why folks think he is so terrible.

"I don't condone steroids or any other type of growth hormones or anything else, but I could care less, and, for the most part, I don't think the fans give a (bleep). The people that care about it are the people that probably don't like baseball," - Jim Leyland

by DJCahill on Jan 27, 2010 8:57 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

It's not that he's terriblely bad

It’s that he’s terribly mediocre. Jon Garland is the pitching version of vanilla ice cream or a room painted eggshell white – sure, he’s not bad. But you can still do so, so much better.

Morality you can fake. Fun you either have or you don't.

by lonestarJon on Jan 27, 2010 9:38 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

There are definitely worse things to have

than LAIEs. Back in the days when the Rangers had potent offenses, I would have killed for more LAIEs.

Now, we probably have enough decent options where a LAIE just kind of gums up the works.

However, saying he is gonna give you 200 shitty innings is a fairly hyperbolic comment. He is most likely gonna be another LAIE, and be better than most 3rd starters out there.

by DJCahill on Jan 27, 2010 10:29 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

In other news

Oakland signed Ben Sheets to 1 year, 10 mil a year. Yikes!!!
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/baseball/rangers/stories/012710dnsposheetsentry.b757ebb2.html

by troysboys on Jan 26, 2010 7:52 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

any word on Colby Lewis?

or better yet, Vlad?

"BIg whoop, wanna fight about it?"

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by lost in space on Jan 26, 2010 7:55 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Ben Sheets was available?

Why hasn’t anyone talked about him? If the Rangers could get him and Harden they’d be tough!

"You promised me, Eckstein, that if I followed you, you would walk with me always. But I noticed that during the most trying periods of my life, there have only been one set of prints in the sand. Why, when I have needed you most, have you not been there for me?" David Eckstein replied, "Because my little legs had gotten tired, and you were carrying me." And I looked down and saw that I was still carrying David Eckstein.

Then he grounded out weakly to second.

by WyoRanger on Jan 26, 2010 8:43 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

I don't know...

I’ve heard Sheets might have some kind of injury concerns? Not sure what those could be though.

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by slc ranger on Jan 26, 2010 8:46 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

We gonna close on that Mike Lowell this year? Jeez.

"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz

"Baseball's all that's real" - JB

by Ryin A on Jan 26, 2010 8:55 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

you think there's still time to trade Blalock for Beckett

if we could do that.. oh boy.

(Wife) "So what do you want to watch on the T.V.? UFC or porn?"
(Husband) "Hmm... well, porn, I guess."

by mtex on Jan 26, 2010 9:01 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

We could really use Oil Can Boyd.

"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz

"Baseball's all that's real" - JB

by Ryin A on Jan 26, 2010 9:12 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

in all seriousness

last night on MLB Network they were talking about Ranger HOFers and mentioned Goose Gossage. Vasgergian, Plesac and whoever else didn’t believe that he’d been a Ranger, and if he had, it hadn’t been longer than a couple of minutes.

I’m usually impressed by what they have to say, especially compared to Baseball Tonight, but last night’s segment on the Rangers was brutal.

(Wife) "So what do you want to watch on the T.V.? UFC or porn?"
(Husband) "Hmm... well, porn, I guess."

by mtex on Jan 26, 2010 9:20 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

annoying but not surprising. hopefully that'll change.

"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz

"Baseball's all that's real" - JB

by Ryin A on Jan 26, 2010 9:34 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Vasgersian

is a tool. He probably thought Goose Gossage looks like Donovan McNabb too.

by mizzou918 on Jan 26, 2010 9:50 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

SANTA MARIA!

Morality you can fake. Fun you either have or you don't.

by lonestarJon on Jan 26, 2010 9:53 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Good announcer on MLB The show

I still believe!

by Ranger121032 on Jan 26, 2010 11:25 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah, he's close enough to Lewin he makes that game really enjoyable for a Ranger fan.

Morality you can fake. Fun you either have or you don't.

by lonestarJon on Jan 26, 2010 11:50 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Before any of this,

we need new ownership.

'Waiting for a girl and she gets me into fights
Waiting for a girl we get drunk on Friday night'

by scoop16 on Jan 26, 2010 9:01 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Here, here.

F Tom HIcks.

"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz

"Baseball's all that's real" - JB

by Ryin A on Jan 26, 2010 9:11 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

None of this matters until we rebuild the farm system with some pitching.

by tyd3311 on Jan 26, 2010 9:16 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Good point,

while we’re at it, let’s get a new pitching coach.

"BIg whoop, wanna fight about it?"

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

by lost in space on Jan 26, 2010 9:34 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

really excited about DVD.

"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz

"Baseball's all that's real" - JB

by Ryin A on Jan 26, 2010 9:34 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

I hear Tom Vandergriff has been talking to Bob Short.

'Waiting for a girl and she gets me into fights
Waiting for a girl we get drunk on Friday night'

by scoop16 on Jan 26, 2010 9:36 PM CST up reply actions 2 recs

This made me laugh out loud.

Rec.

It's baseball. You don't always get what you want, and you don't always want what you get. --Ed Coffin

by txranger7 on Jan 26, 2010 11:11 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

We have to decide

whether Cat or Michael Young will be our long term 2B first.

I’m a white boy who doesn’t think a black man is good enough to manage my baseball team. - LSJ
"I really think that" - LSJ, on being asked by AirJordan

by FirebatM3 on Jan 26, 2010 9:37 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

and before that

…we really have to get this fucking team out of DC.

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by Black Francis on Jan 26, 2010 9:59 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

You know I was talking to my neighbor Abner Doubleday

yesterday, and he said he had a great idea for a new game that the neighborhood association could play at the next cookout.

(Wife) "So what do you want to watch on the T.V.? UFC or porn?"
(Husband) "Hmm... well, porn, I guess."

by mtex on Jan 26, 2010 10:10 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

We need some tossers

that throw wicked googlies…

"JD gets complete blame or credit for what happens in 2010 and I think Nolan wants it that way. JD is paid to be a real GM and needs to start performing like one." - Josey Wales

by Michael Cave on Jan 27, 2010 9:03 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs