MLB Free Agent Power Rankings: Madison Bumgarner solidifies himself among best available after rocky start to 2019

Josh Donaldson and Nicholas Castellanos are doing the same on the position player side by Mike Axisa @mikeaxisa Sep 5, 2019 at 8:40 am ET • 11 min read At the July 31 trade deadline, the Giants made the sensible — yet risky — decision to keep franchise icon and impending free agent Madison Bumgarner. San Francisco won 19 times in 25 games that month and climbed to within two games of the second wild card spot. Keeping Bumgarner and going for it in manager Bruce Bochy’s final season was reasonable. The decision has mostly backfired. The Giants are 12-19 since the trade deadline and have fallen to 8 1/2 games behind the second wild card spot. They missed their opportunity to turn Bumgarner into prospects — the elimination of trade waivers meant they were not able to move him in August once the fade began — and will now shift gears and focus on his impending free agency. It’s easy to assume the Giants and Bumgarner will work something out to keep him in San Francisco the rest of his career. That is a dangerous assumption though, because as of late July, the two sides had not had any… Read full this story

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