Mariners sign local lefty pitcher Nick Hagadone to a minor league contract

Nick Hagadone has a chance to return home.

The big left-hander, who graduated from Sumner High School and played collegiately at the University of Washington, has signed a minor league contract with the Mariners with an invite to spring training.

Hagadone, 31, spent all of 2016 rehabilitating after undergoing surgery in February to repair a fracture in the elbow of his throwing arm. It was his second such procedure on the elbow. In July of 2015, Dr. James Andrews performed the first of two procedures, which was meant to stabilize the medial epicondyle bone. Hagadone was pitching in a rehab start at the Class A level when the injury occurred. Hagadone agreed to a minor league deal with the…