TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) -The Los Angeles Angels have signed right-hander Ervin Santana to a four-year deal through 2012.
The announcement Saturday comes on the first day pitchers and catchers work out at the team’s training facility in Tempe, Ariz.
The 26-year-old Santana is the youngest active big league pitcher with at least 50 wins. He rebounded from a sub-par season in 2007 to go 16-7 with a 3.49 ERA for the AL West champion Angels last season, striking out a career-high 214 batters in 219 innings with only 47 walks.
Santana is 51-37 with the Angels, and expects to be a mid-rotation starter on this year’s club. Along with John Lackey, Joe Saunders and Jered Weaver, the Angels figure to have one of the best pitching staffs in baseball.
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