According to the Arizona Republic, the Arizona Diamondbacks have signed free agent pitcher Jon Garland to a one-year deal with an option for 2010.
The deal is worth somewhere in the range of $6-8 million dollars. Quite a bargain considering Garland made $12 million last season.
Garland was 14-8 with a 4.90 ERA for the Angels last season. He is not a high-profile pitcher (4.47 career ERA), but is very reliable considering he has made at least 32 starts while throwing at least 190 innings every year since 2002.
You can cross Garland off the Mets list of possibly starting pitchers. Oliver Perez is still the top target, though the Mets have been having talks with Ben Sheets.
Perez doesn't really seem to have any other suitors besides the Mets and maybe the Cardinals. The Yankees are probably (though you never know with them and Boras) out of the running since they re-signed Andy Pettitte, and Brewers GM Doug Melvin has said is not interested in Perez.
Sheets has been talking with the Texas Rangers as well, and they are reportedly going over his medical records once again.
Behind Sheets and Perez is lefty Randy Wolf. If things go right he will not be a Met in 2009.
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