Editing Jon Garland (section)

===Chicago White Sox===
On July 29, 1998, Garland was traded to the [[Chicago White Sox]] just before the [[trade deadline]] in exchange for [[relief pitcher]] [[Matt Karchner]] who had previous success in the majors, but was having a down season with the White Sox (5.15 ERA). Unfortunately for the Cubs, Karchner did not fare any better with them that season (5.14 ERA) and was released in {{mlby|2000}} while Garland dominated the minor leagues on his way to securing a spot in the White Sox's rotation for seven seasons.

Garland started {{Baseball year|1999}} with High-A [[Winston-Salem Warthogs|Winston-Salem]] and after 19 starts and a 3.33 ERA, Garland was promoted to Double-A [[Birmingham Barons|Birmingham]]. In {{Baseball year|2000}}, he was the White Sox's #2 prospect and went 9–2 with a 2.26 ERA for Triple-A [[Charlotte Knights|Charlotte]] before earning a promotion to the major leagues. For his success in Triple-A, Garland was voted a Triple-A All-Star and [[International League]] All-Star and to ''Baseball America's'' 2nd team Minor League All-Star team and the International League Most Valuable Pitcher. He started {{Baseball year|2001}} with Charlotte again, but was back in the majors after only 5 starts.

====Major leagues====
[[File:Jon Garland4 (cropped).jpg|200px|thumb|Garland with the White Sox in [[2007 Chicago White Sox season|2007]]]]
Garland made his major league debut as the youngest player in the [[American League]] at age 20 on July 4, 2000, against the [[Kansas City Royals]], but gave up 7 [[earned run]]s before being chased from the game after 3 innings. In 15&nbsp;games in 2000, all but 2 of them starts, he had a 4–8 record and a 6.46 ERA. In {{mlby|2001}}, Garland started in the minors, but was called up and made his first appearance of the year on May 2. On May 12, 2001, he gave up [[Alex Rodriguez]]' 200th home run.<ref>{{cite news |date=July 23, 2010 |title=A-Rod's milestone home runs |url=https://nypost.com/2010/07/23/a-rods-milestone-home-runs/#3 |access-date=2024-09-18 |work=New York Post}}</ref> Garland spent the rest of the year mixing his time between the [[bullpen]] and rotation.

In {{mlby|2002}}, he became a full-time starter and posted average seasons the next three years. In 2002, he was 12–12 with a 4.58 ERA, in {{mlby|2003}}, he was 12–13 with a 4.51 ERA, and in {{mlby|2004}}, he was 12–11 with a 4.89 ERA. Garland's {{mlby|2005}} season was very strong; he went 18–10 with a 3.50 ERA, 115 [[strikeout]]s, and led the AL with 3 [[shutout]]s. He also made the [[Major League Baseball All-Star Game|All-Star Team]], pitching 1 scoreless inning, and helped the White Sox win the [[American League Central]] Division and the [[2005 World Series]]. In Garland's first career postseason start, he threw a [[complete game]], 4-[[Hit (baseball)|hitter]], with 7 strikeouts against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, in the [[2005 American League Championship Series|ALCS]]. In his other postseason start, in the [[World Series]], Garland pitched 7 innings and gave up only 2 earned runs.

Following the 2005 season, Garland signed a three-year $29&nbsp;million contract, avoiding salary [[arbitration]]. 2006 was similar to his seasons before 2005. Despite having a 4.51 ERA, he went 18-7 and his 46 combined wins from 2004 to 2006 were tied for the sixth most in the majors over that period.<ref name="mlb">{{cite web |url=http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20071119&content_id=2303661&vkey=news_ana&fext=.jsp&c_id=ana |title=Angels acquire Garland for Cabrera
 |access-date=2008-10-22 |author=Lyle Spencer |author-link=MLB.com |date=2007-11-19 |work=MLB.com}}</ref> He also hit his first major league [[home run]] on June 18, 2006, off [[Cincinnati Reds]] [[pitcher]] [[Esteban Yan]]. During the 2006 offseason, Garland was nearly traded to the [[Houston Astros]] for [[Taylor Buchholz]], [[Willy Taveras]], and [[Jason Hirsh]]. The trade fell apart after White Sox general manager [[Kenny Williams (baseball)|Kenny Williams]] became concerned with the health of Buchholz.<ref>{{cite web |author=Merkin |first=Scott |last2=Footer |first2=Alyson |date=2006-12-07 |title=White Sox downplay Garland report |url=http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20061207&content_id=1754067&vkey=news_cws&fext=.jsp&c_id=cws |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160212220142/http://m.whitesox.mlb.com/news/article/1754067 |archive-date=2016-02-12 |access-date= |work=MLB.com}}</ref>