It appears Jon Garland is very close to signing with the Arizona Diamondbacks. Also noted in the report is that Randy Wolf was offered a contract by Arizona but declined the offer. Is Dodgertown next?
[UPDATE: Garland has indeed signed with Arizona for 1 year, $6.25 million with a mutual option for 2010. This could have been a great signing for the Dodgers, and I'm very bummed out it didn't happen. One of the issues with signing Garland was thought to be his higher salary demands ($10 million range), but I bet the Dodgers will end up paying more for Randy Wolf than Garland's deal with Arizona.]
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This one hurts. Garland was the pitcher i wanted from the get go. And all it took to sign him was a 1 year deal??
It's not too bad. Wolf will probably sign soon and give us a better season anyway.
I think the biggest issue is that we COULD have had what we were looking for, and all it would have taken was 1 year and 6.25 mil.
No one is disputing that Wolf is a better pitcher, but man, if the Dodgers are looking for stability they really are rolling the dice.
It's frustrating in that the Blue take a step forward, then a step back. I thought the idea was to get better each year. Obviously other teams have seen alot of value in Lowe, Saito, and Penny. If you lose Lowe, the expectation would be that a major market team like this replaces that with equal value. So now they're not even replacing with equal talent, they're getting worse, and that's just what seems to happen. They have a promising year, then the next is a struggle. I feel this has been a serious struggle since Beltre's last year when Pujols hit the BOOOMSHAKALAKA home run in the last playoff game. And Colin Cowherd says it best- this is L.A. and we need stars.
Jon Garland is a star? He isn't even equal talent to Derek Lowe.
I agree with Brandon in his argument in signing Garland for stability. If the Dodgers wanted a guy to pitch 200 innings in 2009 then Jon Garland was the guy.
I guess they will roll the dice a bit with Wolf.
No, I'm sorry if I gave that impression, Garland is not a star or would take the place of Lowe. I was speaking in a larger context, not relating to the Garland signing. Would CC have come to L.A.? Possibly. And we weren't weighed down with Barry Zito's contract. I'll pull the Angels in on this too- the last major superstar caliber player to sign a long contract in L.A. was Vlad Guerrero. I just don't get what the L.A. teams do. If you read the East Coast blogs, besides the Angels ability to beat the Yanks, generally all teams in the West are just viewed as pushovers when it comes to playoff time. I've been saying for years, just competing for or winning the NL West seems to be the mantra every year instead of winning the whole shabang.
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