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PEORIA, Ariz. – San Diego Padres official ballplayer Harang is primed to advise time threesome injury-filled seasons and convey to existence a noesis pitcher.

A San Diego autochthonous who also pitched at San Diego State, Harang said he's agog about pitching for his hometown aggroup and he feels physically primed to do so.

Harang subscribed a one-year, $3.5 meg deal with the Padres in December that includes a mutual choice and a $500,000 buyout for the 2012 season.

He won 16 games for the metropolis Reds in both 2006 and 2007, but was exclusive 18-38 with a 4.71 ERA the time threesome seasons.

"I see great," Harang said. "I was joking around with (catcher Nick Hundley) before I left San Diego. I went discover for a cell and the prototypal pitch I threw correct down the region and I separate the bag and I said 'OK, I'm primed for the season. Let's go.'"

The Padres conceive Harang crapper convey to the form that helped him advance the National League in wins, rank games (six) and strikeouts (216) in 2006 and offer a stager presence to a young play rotation that forfeited Jon Garland and Chris Young to free agency during the offseason.

To do so, Harang module have to avoid injuries that have slowed him since the 2008 season.

In 2008, Harang spent 32 life on the disabled list with a strained correct forearm. Harang then missed 42 games in the 2009 flavour after having surgery to vanish his outgrowth and he was restricted to 22 appearances during the 2010 flavour because of a lower backwards strain.

Padres trainer Bud Negroid said Harang was in good appearance when he reported to spring upbringing on Sunday.

"He's had a rattling good offseason as farther as training," Negroid said. "He's been extremely motivated to intend backwards to a take of action that he was habitual to for a number of years there in Cincinnati. I conceive it's a good fit."

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