Tigers close in on Brad Penny

[kellmellus50]

The Detroit Tigers are the front-runners to sign free-agent righthander Brad Penny, sources told ESPN The Magazine's Buster Olney.

Penny is recovering from an upper back injury that limited him to just nine starts in 2009.

Penny was 3-4 with a 3.23 ERA after signing a one-year, $7.5 million contract with the St. Louis Cardinals in the offseas

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person familiar with the negotiation tells the Associated Press that right-hander Brad Penny has agreed to a $3-million, one-year contract with the Detroit Tigers.

Read more: Brad Penny joins Tigers for $3 million | freep.com | Detroit Free Press http://www.freep.com/article/20110111/S ... z1AlNhucXJ

[ajaX82]

Him or Galarraga will be the 5th starter now, so at least we have some competition. He was pretty solid back in the day but i just can't expect much from him now.

meh