Bumgarner DFA’d

[G-Fafif]

The D'Backs have DFA'd Madison Bumgarner, who never quite got over the guilt he felt ending our 2016 postseason.

[vtmet7]

he's got a pulse, and he's cheap (since the D'Backs are stuck with his salary)...what harm could it do to give him a look while we are down a few arms in the rotation? If nothing else, he could pinch hit for Luis G or Escobar...

[metirish]

Yikes that's a lot of eating

[Fman99]

He's toast

[Edgy MD]

Two-time Silver Slugger with 19 career homers.



The harm would be if he displaces someone more capable, if only for a few rotation turns.

[MFS62]

Sign him and soon they'd be swapping out the Gatorade for Geritol.

Later

[kcmets]

He's only 33, he'd be a baby sitting alongside Justin/Max.



Do they still make and sell Geritol? I remember as a kid it was heavily

advertised but really have no idea what the hell it does or did.

[MFS62]

He's only 33, he'd be a baby sitting alongside Justin/Max. Do they still make and sell Geritol? I remember as a kid it was heavily advertised but really have no idea what the hell it does or did.

I dunno. It was one of the things I remembered from my past, too. I think they called them "tonics".

Later

[kcmets]

Like Vitameatavegamin, 'it's so tasty too!'.

[smg58]

He's pitched far too poorly so far this season to be an immediate answer. But if my pitching coach thinks he's a tweak in his mechanics away from getting his groove back, I'm interested.



Lucchesi pitched too well in his last AAA start to not get the call.

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

I didn't realize Bumgarner is only 33. Seems like he's been around forever. But he also hasn't had a decent season since 2016.

[bmfc1]

On Tony Korneiser's podcast today, Tom Verducci only gave Bumgarner a 3 out of 10 chance of being successful again.

[Gwreck]

I wonder about him as a reliever.

[Frayed Knot]

I actually watched a few innings of what turned out to be his final ARZ game on Wednesday afternoon and found myself wondering if a release was possibly in the mix cuz

he looked like toast; lots of stuff out of the strike zone and everything in the zone was getting hit. I just had no idea how quickly my brief thought would come to pass.



It's perplexing how fast he fell particularly since, as mentioned, he's still just 33 y/o and still looks like he could lift up one side of the stadium in case someone needed

a few minutes to look for some spare change underneath. Relieving is a thought but he's also been so blah for so long now that you really have to assume that this is

his new normal and the old version isn't coming back. I wonder also if he'd even want to pitch out of the pen as he's used to being a main guy and isn't exactly Mr.

sort and cuddly.

[smg58]

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On Tony Korneiser's podcast today, Tom Verducci only gave Bumgarner a 3 out of 10 chance of being successful again.

[Edgy MD]

I'm guessing Tom Verducci's opinion isn't necessarily the Mets position.



Even if he's dead right on the percentage, "successful" has a lot of grey area.