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Jon Steven Garland (born September 27, 1979, in Valencia, California) is a right-handed starting pitcher in Major League Baseball currently playing for the San Diego Padres. At John F. Kennedy High School in Granada Hills, California, Garland won All-State Player of the Year twice, and won 1st team High School All-American honors once. Garland was selected by the Chicago Cubs with the 10th pick of the 1997 Major League Baseball Draft and pitched in 10 games for the Arizona League Cubs with a 3-2 record and a 2.70 ERA to finish the season.




While We’re Waiting… Evaluating Tom Heckert, keeping up in a small market and Browns CBs praised

By: Waiting for Next Year

20Feb2012

While We’re Waiting serves as the early morning gathering of WFNY-esque information for your viewing pleasure. Have something you think we should see? Send it to our tips email at tips@waitingfornextyear.com. Evaluating Heckert- “The Browns,...

Is the Tribe Down On Jeanmar Gomez?

By: Waiting for Next Year

14Feb2012

Derek Lowe. Kevin Slowey. Now, Jon Garland. Are the Indians throwing numbers up against the wall and hoping that a couple of them stick? Well, yes, that is exactly what they are doing. At the end of the 2011 season, The Indians had Justin Masterson,...

Terry Pluto talks Indians, Anderson Varejao, NFL free agents - Podcast

By: Cleveland.com

14Feb2012

What will the Indians' starting rotation look like this season? Where will the Cavs end up in the standings without Anderson Varejao? Plain Dealer sports columnist Terry Pluto answered those questions and more in his weekly podcast.

Dodgers web musings: Clayton Kershaw is looking serious

By: LA Times Dodgers Blog

13Feb2012

A look around the web finds Dodgers left-hander Clayton Kershaw looking serious about following up his National League Cy Young season.

MLB Rumors: Indians Working on Deal for SP Jon Garland

By: Waiting for Next Year

13Feb2012

The Cleveland Indians are apparently looking to corner the market on soft-throwing, location-based right handers as the team is reportedly in the mix for veteran starting pitcher Jon Garland. Fox Sports’ Ken Rosenthal reports that the Indians a...

Red Sox Need an Inning Eater to Win the World Series

By: BoSox Injection

6Feb2012

Mandatory Credit: Tom Szczerbowski The last free agent pitcher who was labelled as an ‘innings eater’ was signed last week when the Washington Nationals signed Edwin Jackson.  The Red Sox were in the mix and had even gone as far as offer...

2 AM at the “Free Agent Bar and Brazier”…will Ben get a Harden, that lasts all season, or just a disappointing Sergio?

By: BoSox Injection

2Feb2012

Since Edwin Jackson and Roy Oswalt appear to be crossed off the Sox Supplemental Starters list, citizens of Red Sox Nation are now pensively pondering and wishfully wondering: “Which starters still swim in the shallow, lukewarm bowl of “Free...

2 AM at the “Free Agent Bar and Brazier” Will Ben get a season-long Harden, or just a small Sergio?

By: BoSox Injection

2Feb2012

Since Edwin Jackson and Roy Oswalt appear to be crossed off the Sox Supplemental Starters list, citizens of Red Sox Nation are now pensively pondering and wishfully wondering: “Which starters still swim in the shallow, lukewarm bowl of “Free...

Big Fish “I’m Feeling Lucky” Lucchino sends GM Ben to find a “whale of a starter” among the goldfish

By: BoSox Injection

11Jan2012

Instead of casting off in quest of a Big Fish, a top tier FA pitcher, to slide into the #4 slot in the rotation behind Lester, Beckett, and Bucholz, sport fisherman and Red Sox President “I’m Feelin’ Lucky” Lucchino  has sent his First Mate,...

Yankees Rumors: Starting Pitching, Budget Constraints

By: Call to the Pen

11Jan2012

The New York Yankees are continuing their search for rotation upgrades as Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com reports that the Yankees are still holding talks with free agent starting pitchers Hiroki Kuroda, Edwin Jackson and Roy Oswalt, but that nothing is...

Marlins Acquire Carlos Zambrano

By: Phillies Nation

4Jan2012

Few fits are as natural as Carlos Zambrano playing in Miami for fellow Venezuelan Ozzie Guillen. The connection was made in early October when the two spoke over the phone about Zambrano potentially joining the Marlins, and Guillen and Big Z got thei...

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