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MLB Trade Rumors.com has cited sources that report former Reds ace Aaron Harang has agreed to contract terms with the San Diego Padres on a one-year deal. Harang’s hometown is San Diego.
The terms are said to be for about $3 million for one season. The feeling is that Harang’s flyball tendencies will fare well in San Diego’s Petco Park. In 2010, Harang was 6-7 for the Reds with a 5.32 ERA in 22 games, 20 of them starts. Harang allowed 16 homers in 111 2/3 innings in 2010. His career ground ball to fly ball ratio is 0.60. The major league average over Harang’s career is 0.79.
In eight seasons with the Reds, Harang was 75-80 with a 4.28 ERA (103 ERA+) His best Reds season was 2007 when he was 16-6 with a 3.73 ERA (124 ERA+) when he was second in the league in strikeouts with 218, finishing fourth in Cy Young balloting. Harang led the league in strikeouts in 2006 with 216. For his career, Harang is 81-87 with a 4.33 ERA (102 ERA+) in nine seasons.
Redleg Nation certainly wishes Harang the best of luck. He was the consummate professional as a Red, and always a favorite.
I won’t be surprised at all if he has a big bounce back season. He was a class act, and he’ll be missed. Wishing him all the best, except against the Reds of course.
I just read where Harang got $3M for 1 year. That is not too shabby considering that many folks seemed to be thinking he was going to have to sign a minor league deal with a spring training invite. I guess the Padres are convincved he is physically sound and hope he can keep the fly balls to the deep parts of that big park. I too wish Harang nothnig but the best except against his former team.
On another signing, $8M for 1 year for Lance Berkman by the Cards seems like a real head scratcher me. To the best of my memory it has been years since Berkman has played signifcant outfield time; and, during those years he has been plagued with leg injuries/issues. The thought of Berkman in LF along with his offensive production last year for $8M maybe should make us feel a little better about $1.75M for Jonny Gomes in LF? And that is not to mention Holiday now apparently being their right fielder when he was a less than sterling left fielder to begin with.
Anybody else wondering if maybe the high inner council of the Cards has decided that they aren’t going to be able to resign Albert and that they may start shopping him, as the Berkman signing would certainly make a littel more sense if he figured to be playing a lot of 1B.
This is the scenario everyone saw for Harang, and I hope it works out for him. Except of course when he pitches against us.
To me the Berkman signing by the Cardinals is a sign of decline. For that matter, so was the signing of Theriot as their “solution” at SS.
I begin to question the competence of the Cardinals’ current GM. I think they miss WJ.
Yet the Cardinals are already the pre-season favorite to win the NL Central next year.
I know everybody here is talking about getting Zack Grienke, MLBTradeRumors.com has said that Grienke is willing to go anywhere.
Good contract for Harang and good situation going to San Diego where flyballs never seem to leave the park unless Adrian Gonzalez is hitting them (no longer!) I also wish him well.
Well said. There’s also the wife and kids to be close to.
Gives me another “good guy” on another team to keep an eye on, like Hamilton, Dunn, etc…
The Cards beat the crap out of the Reds in head-to-head play this year. Now they’ve signed a guy with 50 career dingers against the Reds. Berkman might be in decline, but he’s still a Reds killer.