The Padres signed Jon Garland to a one-year deal with a mutual option for 2011. Garland earns $4.7MM in 2010, plus another $600K if San Diego buys out his $6.75MM mutual option for 2011.
The 30-year-old Garland earned $7.25MM with the Diamondbacks and Dodgers last year, when he made 33 starts with a 4.01 ERA. Moving to Petco Park will certainly help boost his overall numbers. We heard that San Diego had about $5MM left to spend last week. The Padres wanted someone durable that would contribute innings and Garland definitely fits that criteria. He has made at least 32 starts and thrown at least 191.2 innings every year since 2002.
The Mets and Dodgers were two other teams recently connected to the righty.
MLB.com's Corey Brock first reported the agreement and Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports and Dan Hayes of the North County Times added details via Twitter.
Ben Nicholson-Smith contributed to this post.
haha the mets will have no one. Smoltz? okayyyyyyy
i just picture minaya crying like coach kline on the waterboy. that makes me laugh. he’s talked to every free agent just like any other team.
There are still options out there but Garland will do great on the Padres!!! This is a great signing!!
There are still options out there but Garland will do great on the Padres!!! This is a great signing!!
Nice….
Perfect fit for the Padres.
HAHAHAHAHAHA WHAT ARE THE METS GOING TO DO NOW???? JIMINY CRICKETS… THEY’RE TEAM IS GOING TO BE great….. LOL
eh, no real surprise here. Good signing but its definitely a lateral movement..no progression, no regression.
I disagree. As long as he is healthy, Garland pitches a lot of innings.
Given the relative youth of the Padre rotation and the general inability of most of the current 5th starter options to get past the 5th inning, Garland is definitely an upgrade and a solid vet. presence.
Great signing by Hoyer.
Perfect reply.
What is the good of pitching a lot of innings when you have an ERA over 4 and you lose more games then you win? Has Major League pitching become so bad that this is a good standard, or you sign a guy who spent a year on the disabled list for 10 million dollars?
The record is a little irrelavent since that is as much a product of the offense playing behind you (just ask Jake Peavy).
And having an ERA of 4 and pitching over 200 innings is good when the other internal options to fill the rotation have no track record of pitching that many innings with an ERA under 4.
Not sure how you figure a solid innings eater, and mentor for a young pitching staff for a fairly low cost is “no progression”. Did they just sign the equivalent of Johan Santana? Absolutely not, did they take a step towards being a .500 team this year, absolutely.
Let’s not look at every signing that is not a perrenial all-star as “no progression, no regression”.
Whoah that came out of left field. Anyone notice that a lot of these guys are going to pitchers parks primarily. I’m surprised he signed there.
This is out of the blue, but makes sense. The Pads needed a pitcher who could eat innings and be semi effective…
Oh, the Mets are screwed, IMO, unless they go to a trade
Lots of signings today, hopefully the rest of the offseason is this busy. Nice signing by the Padres, another pitcher’s park for Gar Gar, he should do well.
The Mets are officially not getting even SECOND PLACE IN THE DIVISION. THEY ARE DONE. Way to go Omar your officially the worst gm ever. People the Mets have lost (Big Names) FEEL FREE TO ADDGarlandPinieroSheetsPeople Omar has signedBay
This is what the Mets get for wasting so much time and money on Bay when pitching should have been their priority. The Mets really screwed up this offseason, they should’ve had pitching as their no. 1 objective and yet they spend all their time on Jason Bay.
Nice, Omar finally getting a pitche….. oh wait he’s still sitting back and doing nothing. John smotlz…really? What is he 50?
so…whats left for the mets now…
braden looper?
todd wellemeyer?
jarrod washburn?
lol this day just keeps getting better.
maybe tom glavine? LMFAO
I forgot how many message board GM’s this place trolls out when something like this happens. Must be a sale on Met haterade going on this month.
Hopefully Omar doesn’t make it past May. He’s clueless.
As of right now, the Phillies 2, 3, and 4 are ALL better than the Mets 2.
It’s going to be a long year.
GMs don’t often get fired mid-season. The time to fire him was this offseason.
Unfortunately, the Mets don’t want to cough up the dough to buy him out. And yet you have NBC buying out Conan for $45M when they’re going to lose $200M to the Olympics.
Oh please! What we need is to fire the Wilpons!
Yeah, I know…that’ll happen.
If would have told me that BOTH Sheets and Garland would sign today I would have bet that the Mets would have got one of them.
So its down to Looper and Washburn as innings eaters and Smoltz, Wang, and Bedard as injury risk starters. Not completely dire but not looking as hot as when Lackey, Halliday, Wolf, Sheets, Pinero, and Marquis were all still on the board.
Mets getting absolutely shilled this offseason.
maybe its not as bad as we think it is,
perhaps the mets will realize they need to take a gamble and bump Igarashi and Kelvim Escobar into starters and the other becomes Set up…
if not all hope is lost.
I don’t know enough about Igarashi but I do know that attempts to put Kelvim back in the starter position within the last year have met with re-injury. I don’t think we want to go down that path.
Its the Mets. Isn’t all hope lost automatically? LOL J/K
Interesting non-moves by the Mets today–both Sheets and/or Garland were needed, and neither will don a Mets uniform.
Wow, Jed hoyer has really surprised me. Even if this are little moves, I doubt Towers would have made any of them. I like the Hairston brothers, Stairs of the bench, and now this one, Garland to me is a perfect fit, and i think he will surprise some of you. I expect something like what Correia gave us last year from Garland.
The rotation is Young, Correia, Garland, Richard and Latos?
I think Gallagher will be fighting with Latos for the 5th spot…it was pretty evident that Latos needed some work on his breaking pitches last year. He needs a changeup also. We are solid 1-5 though…I am excited for the new season.
Alright, I know I said this on the Ben Sheets thread, but I think this officially makes the Mets’ offseason a failure.
Mets front office seemed to think that the free agent pitching market was pretty thin beyond Lackey. Wonder if they’re just hoping for the best out of the guys they’ve got now and keeping their powder dry for next year’s free agent class? Only explanation that makes sense (either that or players simply don’t want to come to the Mets).
There is another…the Mets might simply be putting out inadequate offers. It may just be that the Wilpons don’t want to let go of the purse strings these days – it’s not all up to Omar. Either way, it sure isn’t helping them.
I wouldn’t be upset if they at least got Washburn or Bedard. Washburn has shown he can do well in a pitchers park, and bedard when healthy is an ace…..just no smoltz omar, please
Wang and Bedard might be serviceable; if the Mets sign both of them, one will probably work out. But Garland is an innings eater and I personally would prefer him to either of the reclamation projects. Looper and Washburn should be avoided at all costs.
the mets can take Kyle Lohse off the cardinals hands..i’d settle for john maine. We get a salary dump, you get a starter.
Maine is a far better pitcher than Kyle Lohse.
PASS.
2007-2009:
ERA+
Maine 103
Lohse 101
WAR
Maine 4.7
Lohse 6.3
Better? Maybe. Far better? Not hardly.
2007-2009:
ERA+
Maine 103
Lohse 101
WAR
Maine 4.7
Lohse 6.3
Better? Maybe. Far better? Not hardly.
if anything, their about even. Lohse should some great flashes of brilliance against the 2 astros games (shut out+7 2/3 2 run game) and had some good games in between
but saying that maine, mr. 4 ERA maine, is FAR BETTER is like saying mark teixeria is FAR better than kendry morales….we know teixeria is better but definitly not FAR better.
ERA alone is a bad stat to tell if a pitcher is better but if you really want to do it that way Maine’s career era is over a half run better than Lohse’s…
if anything, their about even. Lohse should some great flashes of brilliance against the 2 astros games (shut out+7 2/3 2 run game) and had some good games in between
but saying that maine, mr. 4 ERA maine, is FAR BETTER is like saying mark teixeria is FAR better than kendry morales….we know teixeria is better but definitly not FAR better.
The Wilpons will probably sell this spiraling down organization sooner or later. Hard to believe how an organization with this kind of payroll and fans base is having so much trouble to finding players and success. You have to feel sorry for the Mets fans.
The reason people keep mentioning the Mets is because even Mets fans on here were saying they needed someone behind Santana becauseMainePelfreyPerezaren’t fooling anyoneWhat is left out there now. 2 time surgically repaired Wangshoulder surgery in 2001lost 2 months to a shoulder injury in 2005 as a rookieshoulder surgery in 2009Wonder why the Yankees were suspect of him moving forward, they of all people would have the medical info on him through the years and the prognosis going forward. Erik Bedard who has his own issuesJohn SmoltzPedro – neh, couldn’t be. Jarrod WashburnOutside of Bedard not much to impress you on the market left and Bedard seems to be in hiding, as if he is still hurt.
Where Wang’s surgeries serious ones? He did have some success druing 06-07.
Well he has had 2 shoulder surgeries as a starting pitcher in his career that is never good. Granted they were years apart 2001 and 2009, but two shoulder surgeries doesn’t sound kosher for a starter.
Keep in mind he had one on his foot as well
Keep in mind he had one on his foot as well
Nice job Jed. Nice addition to our young rotation, surprised they had the budget for him though.
Phillies/Braves/Marlins
Nationals
Mets
Phillies, Braves, and the Marlins will place 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in any order, Nationals in 4th, and Mets in 5th with, I believe the second highest payroll in baseball.
Naaaa, close, but you know the the Nats won’t beat out the mets.
uhm yeah they will. They actually have a better team than them.
Here’s another pitcher that could be had for the Mets but once again Omar was asleep at the wheel. I think the Mets are in deep trouble, sure their line up is good, but they have nothing in the rotation aside from Santana. The Mets needed Sheets and now they loose the option of turning to Garland as a back up, I think eventually they sign Jared Washburn, its really their only option left.
nice pickup for pads.
The sad part is that they have money to spend, yet they lose the bidding to the Padres. What like 20 million left to spend. Maybe Damon/Gomes, Looper, and Wellemyer/Washburn?
Me personally, I would take Washburn over Garland in the NL. Washburn had a pretty good first half last year and he doesn’t get injured that much.
A lot of these deals look good as of right now, but once the season starts and progresses we will find out which deal was really the good ones
Me personally, I would take Washburn over Garland in the NL. Washburn had a pretty good first half last year and he doesn’t get injured that much.
A lot of these deals look good as of right now, but once the season starts and progresses we will find out which deal was really the good ones
I’ve always felt that with players like Garland, if he’s actually going to improve your team then there’s no sense signing him because you’re not going to contend anyway. Seems as though they could have plugged in a young guy and gotten nearly the same production, if they couldn’t find a young guy somewhere that could do what Garland does then they aren’t looking hard enough. He pitches a lot of innings? Big deal, those innings aren’t that great. I realize he has some value because of those innings but I guess I prefer quality to quantity. I suppose they could deal him for prospects (however marginal) at the deadline or perhaps they could end up with a draft pick, that may make it a worthwhile signing. Hopefully the daddy’s aren’t expecting him to actually help them contend though, because he won’t. He’s just not that good.
Garland had pretty good numbers last year, and while the Padres had lots of 5th starter candidates, Garland is an upgrade on what Padre fans have seen out of them.
And the reason those innings Garland throws are great (even if they don’t compete) is it provides some protection for the young arms in the bullpen and the rest of the rotation that the Padres will need in the next couple of years. If you’ve watched Padre games you know they had to go to the bullpen way to early way to often last year.
Awesome reply. Very true.
bstokes, you nailed it. I think you can take it even further. This signing of Garland takes the pressure off our young offense as well. It has a team-wide effect. LOVE it.
Garland had pretty good numbers last year, and while the Padres had lots of 5th starter candidates, Garland is an upgrade on what Padre fans have seen out of them.
And the reason those innings Garland throws are great (even if they don’t compete) is it provides some protection for the young arms in the bullpen and the rest of the rotation that the Padres will need in the next couple of years. If you’ve watched Padre games you know they had to go to the bullpen way to early way to often last year.
I’ve always felt that with players like Garland, if he’s actually going to improve your team then there’s no sense signing him because you’re not going to contend anyway. Seems as though they could have plugged in a young guy and gotten nearly the same production, if they couldn’t find a young guy somewhere that could do what Garland does then they aren’t looking hard enough. He pitches a lot of innings? Big deal, those innings aren’t that great. I realize he has some value because of those innings but I guess I prefer quality to quantity. I suppose they could deal him for prospects (however marginal) at the deadline or perhaps they could end up with a draft pick, that may make it a worthwhile signing. Hopefully the daddy’s aren’t expecting him to actually help them contend though, because he won’t. He’s just not that good.
“I’m just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber.” Maybe Ewen Mcgregor meant Hoyer’s Louisville Slugger, jus sayin..
Jed the “Jedi Hoyer” is “pullin” out all the stops.
“I’m just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber.” Maybe Ewen Mcgregor meant Hoyer’s Louisville Slugger, jus sayin..
Jed the “Jedi Hoyer” is “pullin” out all the stops.
So this means Garland earns almost the same as Adrian Gonzalez?? Amazing what a great contract the Padres got out of Gonzalez, and the cornucopia of prospects that will come to the Pads in July when he is traded.
I really like what Hoyer and company are doing right now…
So this means Garland earns almost the same as Adrian Gonzalez?? Amazing what a great contract the Padres got out of Gonzalez, and the cornucopia of prospects that will come to the Pads in July when he is traded.
I really like what Hoyer and company are doing right now…
Ha! Most of the comments on this thread are about the Mets missing out on pitching. I would imagine Met fans want answers from Wilpon and Minaya. They need to do something.
Ha! Most of the comments on this thread are about the Mets missing out on pitching. I would imagine Met fans want answers from Wilpon and Minaya. They need to do something.
Mets season is looking grim. The Mets missed out on: Lackey, Pineiro, Sheets, Marquis, and Garland. The only options left are the ancient Smoltz and Bedard (Bedard would be good but whats the chance the Mets are smart and sign him based on Omars moves up until now).
It took me till this point in the offseason to join the FIRE OMAR chant..
Mets season is looking grim. The Mets missed out on: Lackey, Pineiro, Sheets, Marquis, and Garland. The only options left are the ancient Smoltz and Bedard (Bedard would be good but whats the chance the Mets are smart and sign him based on Omars moves up until now).
It took me till this point in the offseason to join the FIRE OMAR chant..
WOW, didn’t see this coming…
The Mets really need an innings-eater BAD, and Garland was probably the best of the rest…with Maine, Pelfrey and Perez in the rotation, the Mets could need close to 600 innings from the bullpen…that’s really, really not good.
They HAVE to get Washburn now IMO.
WOW, didn’t see this coming…
The Mets really need an innings-eater BAD, and Garland was probably the best of the rest…with Maine, Pelfrey and Perez in the rotation, the Mets could need close to 600 innings from the bullpen…that’s really, really not good.
They HAVE to get Washburn now IMO.
Seriously, who is writing these reports? The Mets were NEVER I repeat NEVER connected to Garland. They knew he wanted to play on the West Coast, they knew he would not come to NY, so they never made an offer or even asked about him. The Mets WERE NOT connected to Garland.
I like this, especially when everyone expected the Pads to do nothing this offseason. Now they are a dark horse for Hudson?! 4mm seems like a nice play in a pitchers park for an innings eater with solid upside. Good move.
Garland has averaged over 200 IP per season since 2002 so he is an inning eater but his career 4.42 ERA, 4.72 FIP and matching K/9 is not a big improvement over the pitchers he will be relegating to AAA with the exception of proven durabilty.
Man you Mets fan not only didn’t get your guy, you are killing this comment board…lol Who cares you didn’t get him.Let the Padre fans be happy in peace! 😉
I bet Garland has a ERA in the 3’s this year at Petco…cant wait to see him through. Our team is really shaping up, Jed got every piece of the puzzle that he was out to get and had a super limited budget, I love every move so far.
They should have took their money this year and spent it on Harden and Damon. Same amount of money but a much better team.
They should have took their money this year and spent it on Harden and Damon. Same amount of money but a much better team.
Yeah, it seems like a trade should be in order for the Mets if they want a #2-3 starter who is also durable. Harang and Arroyo could be good enough to fit that bill but the Reds may be in a position to force the Mets to overpay for them.
I personally would sign one of Looper/Washburn just to get some averagish innings locked up and then sign BOTH Smoltz and Bedard and hope they can be #2-3 caliber pitchers and thow enough innings to be useful. Then if they don’t you can go out and trade for a starter midseason.
I don’t think they specifically missed out on Garland especially since he wants to play on the West Coast but the offseason as a whole was a complete bust and I can’t believe they did not make pitching priority no. 1. Wang is the best option left for the Mets however given his injury history I highly doubt he wants to play for the Mets either and probly doesn’t trust their medical and training staff.
If we’ve learned one thing this offseason it’s that players flat out do not want to play for the Mets more than ever after this past disasterous season watching how players were injured how the team was run in general, this is really sad for the Mets organization. Players absolutely do not want to play there and they have some major image repair to do this season otherwise the Mets only hope is to acquire players via trade which they have a horrible farm so I don’t see that happening. Once I saw they were going so hard after Bay I knew this would be a mess of an offseason for the boys in Queens but the fans and media throw fits about big names so the organization signs them even if it’s not what’s best for the team. The best thing the Mets can do is stop caring what fans and the media says for a couple years while they build a winner rather than being stuck in the middle w/ no real plan one way or the other
The last line of the article, The Mets and Dodgers were two other teams connected to Garland recently.
It is not like the mets missed out on much. If oakland wants to pay Ben Sheets 10 million they could have him. He has as good of a chance of being on the Dl at the trade deadline as not. Garland has an ERA of over 4 and a losing record so I am not sure of the term inning eater.It sounds like a lot of people are jealous of the fact the mets signed Jason Bay. The Red Sox being a class orginization all the way put out a rumor about his knees. They always trash a player when they do not resign him. Too bad about being stuck with Dicek . What does boston owe him again?Can he still get Major Leaguers out? Why did they not get the opinion of there Medical staff before signing him?
Close, but no. The mets needed to address their starting pitching depth. The yankees knew what they had to do, and did that. Omar has done very little to help his club out, besides the acquisition of Bay, the mets have not improved their team. They have a whole at catcher and the rotation. The mets did lose those players because they needed at least one starter from free agency or off of the trade market.
Oh and just in case you missed it, the Mets did have interest in him, the very last sentence of the article, “The Mets and Dodgers were two other teams connected to Garland recently.”
The point is a company that is going to lose $200M this year is still willing to pay $45M to get rid of someone. The Mets will not be losing $200M and there’s no way Minaya is making $45M.
The point is a company that is going to lose $200M this year is still willing to pay $45M to get rid of someone. The Mets will not be losing $200M and there’s no way Minaya is making $45M.
What do you mean has that much changed since the Santana signing? Did you watch last season it was hard to watch, whether most injuries were freak occurances or not it still made the Mets look bad and like they didn’t take care of their players. I just think the Mets went into this offseason all wrong w/ the strategy they had. Wang is a good option IMO plus he’s proved he can pitch in NY. And I would be more confident in him pitching more of the season than Bedard.
What do you mean has that much changed since the Santana signing? Did you watch last season it was hard to watch, whether most injuries were freak occurances or not it still made the Mets look bad and like they didn’t take care of their players. I just think the Mets went into this offseason all wrong w/ the strategy they had. Wang is a good option IMO plus he’s proved he can pitch in NY. And I would be more confident in him pitching more of the season than Bedard.