Garland deal official?

Nick Piecoro reports that Garland signs with the D-Backs for $6-8 million. One year deal with a second year option that can be exercised by either the player or the team.

Lets hope this works out. Will another year removed form injury be the answer for Garland?

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....wow.

Was NOT really expecting that.

"Of course, it’s downright frightening to imagine how two Adam Dunns would turn the double play." - Joe Posnanski

by DbacksSkins on Jan 28, 2009 12:50 PM EST reply actions

very interesting

Much of how this will be evaluated (before the season, not after) will be based on what sort of contracts this next tier of pitchers sign.

Garland is okay, I guess. Glad to have another durable arm in the rotation… but his peripherals have fallen for two consecutive years, and he’s only 29. Did he peak at 26 or can he regain 2006 form?

With four very durable pitchers it will be interesting to see what sort of innings Petit et al can garner. The typical mantra is: “can’t have enough starting pitching” — and that’s well and good. However, I think one would be hard pressed to find a club with 4 SPs with the kind of durability track record we’ve assembled. In the case of Haren and Webb that’s only a good thing… in the case of Davis and Garland… well, we shall see.

"There are only two seasons: winter and baseball"
-- Bill Veeck

by njjohn on Jan 28, 2009 2:54 PM EST reply actions

On MLB Trade Rumors it says the option is mutual,

meaning it must be exercised by both Garland and the D-Backs.

by Brendan Scolari on Jan 28, 2009 2:55 PM EST reply actions

I think he already on the decline....

….His stats will improve in the NL west but I wish the option wasn’t mutual. I wish he was more one and done with his high salary. But then good thing is if he does real well, he’ll opt out and with some other contracts coming off the books we can extend Webby.

Overall I think it was a good move but I expect some bad fielding behind him…

Yes, I'm a Diamondback and Suns fan. So you may be wondering, "Why does this fool like the Broncos so much?"

A: The Cardinals are too hard of a pill to swallow. Oh yeah and that Elway dude....

by Elway4Prez on Jan 28, 2009 4:50 PM EST reply actions

I second that

especially the last part

by sergey606 on Jan 28, 2009 7:10 PM EST up reply actions

It's going to take A LOT more than $10 million (the value of Garland's option year)

to re-sign Webby.

"Of course, it’s downright frightening to imagine how two Adam Dunns would turn the double play." - Joe Posnanski

by DbacksSkins on Jan 28, 2009 10:16 PM EST up reply actions

But D&D is coming off the books...

And Tracy too, correct? That’s somewhere near 20 mill…

Yes, I'm a Diamondback and Suns fan. So you may be wondering, "Why does this fool like the Broncos so much?"

A: The Cardinals are too hard of a pill to swallow. Oh yeah and that Elway dude....

by Elway4Prez on Jan 31, 2009 2:23 PM EST up reply actions

I'm okay

with having White Sox duders around.

Russian Roulette is not the same without a gun, and baby when it's love if it's not rough it isn't fun.

by soco on Jan 28, 2009 7:13 PM EST reply actions

they have one of ours

Let's go Colts! Thanks Tony Dungy for the many years of success!

by JustAJ on Jan 28, 2009 11:12 PM EST up reply actions

Kind of a

one for one “bag of balls” trade with Young/Quentin.

Russian Roulette is not the same without a gun, and baby when it's love if it's not rough it isn't fun.

by soco on Jan 28, 2009 11:48 PM EST up reply actions

forgot about Young

yeah we owe them one for that.

Here grab my hand, let me help you aboard the Cardinals' band wagon!

by JustAJ on Jan 29, 2009 12:04 PM EST up reply actions

Not anymore

after the Quentin debacle. I think MLB should just make a blanket rule that says “Diamondbacks and White Sox shouldn’t do trades with each other, because they get hella dumb.”

I am Shiva the destroyer, your harbinger of doom this evening.

by soco on Jan 31, 2009 4:32 PM EST up reply actions