SEATTLE - Despite shoulder operations and disappointment in Seattle in each of the last two seasons, free-agent left-harden Erik Beard returns to Mariners. General Manager Jack Door ionic announced Saturday the team and often injured 30-year-old agreed a one-year contract a mutual option for 2011.
The contract is expected to have a base salary at a fraction of the $ 7.75 million Beard made last season. It includes incentive clauses, the exact value that is not easily known His rehabilitation with a physiotherapist in the country of Canada, after an operation in August to repair a torn Lab rum in his pitching shoulder. Last week, “said Mariners trainer Rick Griffin to the normal recovery time for the procedure is 10-12 months. It would have Beard get his debut season in June at the earliest.
After two disappointing seasons with Beard, Seattle will no longer need him to be on top of the rotation. Mariners traded former Cy Young Award winner Cliff Lee in the winter to mate with Felix Hernandez, who made recently held with a 78 million U.S. dollars contract.
Mariners Beard declined to offer salary arbitration this winter after having paid him $ 14.75 million for two seasons where he won 11 games in 30 starts. Shoulder problems kept him from pitching last July 4 in his first season with the team.
He had surgery in September 2008 to remove a cyst in the left shoulder. He was on the active roster for only 20 days last June 17 last seasons before his next surgery. When he has traveled to Mariners, he has rarely lasted long into the game.