{"id":58115,"date":"2023-04-20T12:43:55","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T16:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=58115"},"modified":"2023-04-20T12:43:55","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T16:43:55","slug":"diamondbacks-bumgarner-dfa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2023\/04\/20\/diamondbacks-bumgarner-dfa\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Diamondbacks Designate Three-Time World Series Champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2023\/03\/30\/mlb-teams-intriguing-seasons\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a> are done with Madison Bumgarner. The three-time World Series champion was designated for assignment as Arizona will take on the remaining $34 million on his contract. The left-hander signed a five-year $85 million deal with the Diamondbacks before the 2020 season. Bumgarner has not lived up to expectations since, as he&#8217;s struggled during his tenure in the desert. He posted a 5.23 ERA over 70 starts with his worst outing to date yesterday. He allowed seven runs in three innings against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2023\/04\/15\/mlb-elite-eight\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">St. Louis Cardinals<\/a>. His ERA went up to 10.26 before being pulled.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Madison Bumgarner&#8217;s final line with the Diamondbacks: a 5.23 ERA over 69 starters on a five-year, $85 million deal. Once he clears waivers, he&#8217;ll be available for every team at the major league minimum of $720,000. First with the news of Bumgarner being DFA&#8217;d was <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nickpiecoro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@nickpiecoro<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeffPassan\/status\/1649084352079228932?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Diamondbacks Designate Mad Baum for Assignment<\/h2>\n<p>The 33-year-old will be owed $20.4 million for the remainder of the season then $14 million for the 2024 season. As soon as he clears waivers, it&#8217;s possible a trade won&#8217;t trade for him.\u00a0 By doing so, that team will have to eat the remainder of the money left on his contract. Then again, Bumgarner is eligible to sign with a team for the league minimum if no one acquires his services.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Madison Bumgarner has a 10.26 ERA this year, and 5.10 in parts of 4 years w\/ AZ. I do wonder how much longer they&#8217;ll let him go on.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mike Petriello (@mike_petriello) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mike_petriello\/status\/1648782742748909568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Things did not go well for Bumgarner in 2023. He coughed up 20 runs, 19 earned, on 25 hits and 15 walks with 10 strikeouts in 16 2\/3 innings of work. The Diamondbacks went on to lose all three of Bumgarner&#8217;s four starts. His lone victory came when he went 4 2\/3 innings with three runs and six walks against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2023\/04\/18\/longest-baseball-game-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It was clear three years ago that Arizona was high on Bumgarner. His numbers took a dive following his spectacular 2011-2016 run. At the time, he was a reliable starter who threw 200-plus innings on a consistent basis. In 2019, his 3.90 ERA was the worst of his career, until 2023 came along. Then again, Bumgarner has a legendary postseason career. The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2023\/04\/19\/giants-sats-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">San Francisco Giants<\/a>&#8216; early 2010&#8217;s dynasty saw Bumgarner toss 102 1\/3 innings of 2.11 ERA baseball in October. His most memorable moment came in 2014 when he carried the Giants pitching staff by throwing 21 innings in the World Series himself.<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: \u00a9 Jeff Curry-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n<p>Players mentioned:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/bumgama01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-04-20_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Madison Bumgarner<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arizona Diamondbacks are done with Madison Bumgarner. The three-time World Series champion was designated for assignment as Arizona will take on the remaining $34 million on his contract. The left-hander signed a five-year $85 million deal with the Diamondbacks before the 2020 season. Bumgarner has not lived up to expectations since, as he&#8217;s struggled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3686,"featured_media":58116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,2,1071],"tags":[78,94],"class_list":["post-58115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diamondbacks","category-featured","category-mlb","tag-madison-bumgarner","tag-nl-west"],"modified_by":"Matt Graves","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3686"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}