According to CBS Sportsline.com Jarrod Washburn is close to signing with the Mariners for four years and between $36 and $38 million.
Washburn has a career record of 75-57 so he's obviously a better bargain than AJ Burnett, right?
Washburn is an extreme fly ball pitcher - his career GB/FB ratio is .74:1 - so Safeco Field will be a good fit for him (but what pitcher wouldn't benefit?).
Comparison time:
Pitcher: IP K/G BB/G HR/G Washburn 177.3 4.9 2.6 1.0 X 208.7 4.9 1.3 1.1Pitcher X is none other than Josh Towers. If he can make 2005 the norm rather than the exception he'll be a very rich man three years from now.
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