Updated 2:31pm PST: MLB.com reports that Rich Harden is headed to the Texas Rangers.  He is to sign a 1 year deal for $7.5 million with an $11.5 million option.

Buster Olney of ESPN (ESPN Insider) reports that pitcher Rich Harden is on the verge of an agreement with the Seattle Mariners.  Terms are not available, but Harden was open to signing a 1-year contract for those teams reluctant to sign him due to his poor health record.  Harden was classified in the second tier of free agent pitchers.  He was being marketed as a “plan B” towards those teams that are in the hunt for starting pitcher John Lackey or Roy Halladay such as the Yankees and the Red Sox.

Harden, 28, was 9-9 with a 4.09 ERA in 141 innings in 26 games for the Chicago Cubs.  He was injured throughout his career with the Oakland Athletics which makes him a high risk in signing him to a long-term deal.  You can see his past salary and statistics here.