According to the Los Angeles Times’ Dylan Hernandez, the Dodgers have reached an agreement with Jon Garland.  Hernandez adds that Garland’s deal is guaranteed for one year and includes a 2012 option $8 million salary) that vests if he pitches 190 or more innings (which he has done the last 9 seasons).  The deal is for $5 million plus other reachable incentives.

Garland, 31, returns to the team where he spent the latter half of the 2009 season with the Los Angeles Dodgers after he was traded to the team from the Arizona Diamondbacks on  August 31, 2009.

Garland had a 14-12 record with an ERA of 3.47 and 138 strikeouts in 200 innings of work this season with the 2010 San Diego Padres. Garland declined his part of the mutual option with the Padres at the beginning of November.