SUNDAY: Baggarly adds on Twitter that Bumgarner remains on track to start on Saturday for the Giants.
SATURDAY, 10:50pm: X-rays on Bumgarner came back negative, Andrew Baggarly of The Athletic tweets. He suffered an elbow contusion.
SATURDAY, 10:12pm: Giants left-hander Madison Bumgarner exited his start against the Cardinals on Saturday after two innings. Bumgarner took a first-inning comebacker to the left elbow off the bat of Jose Martinez, Henry Schulman of the San Francisco Chronicle was among those to report. The 29-year-old stayed in immediately after, but his “elbow was really swollen,” Anne Rogers of MLB.com tweets. The Giants opted to pull Bumgarner early as a result.
The severity of the injury is unknown at this time, though removing Bumgarner may have been a precautionary move on the Giants’ part. As Schulman notes, San Francisco doesn’t have any real reason to take a chance with Bumgarner. After all, the multi-time playoff hero stands out as a premier trade chip going into the July 31 deadline.
Bumgarner, possibly the best rental starter on the block, has logged a 4.03 ERA/3.91 FIP with tremendous strikeout and walk rates (9.27 K/9, 1.93 BB/9) over 111 2/3 innings this season. If healthy, plenty of contenders will inquire about Bumgarner this month. At least two already have in recent weeks.
It was above his elbow on his arm
Relevance?
Less risk of a fracture
This will only make Bumgarner stronger.
His elbow said “you want a fracture go get it out of the ocean”
His elbow was swollen.
His removal was cautionary. Or post-cautionary.
If he was pulled before the injury, it would have been precautionary.
In regards to preventing any further injury, it was precautionary.
Thanks Webster!
Really!!?? Your quibbling about this!?
Seemed fair game.
“It” seemed “like” fair game.
If you really want to be a dork about it
Internet bro. Use of shorthand is OK.
Dang… I always lose at “Who’s the bigger dork” game. I’ll get you next time.
According to whom?
Tough break for the Giants.
Doubt that bruised triceps is going to change much in the Giants plans for Bum. Xrays were negative after all.
SLATERRRR
Well, the price for Zach Wheeler might have just gone up. Somehow I think the Mets will still find a way to screw it up.
If you ask the Mets, they’re contenders. If BVW has his way, they’ll probably be buyers.
The price for Wheeler wasn’t very high to begin win with.
I just said it went up, I didn’t say it skyrocketed.
It actually went WAY down after today’s outing! Terrible performance
I’m more concerned for the home plate UMP Lance Barrett for taking a shot to the neck from that Tyler O’Neil foul ball 😮 MadBum is a good ol’ southern boy and he’ll be okay. Hell, he’d still be pitching if he had it his way
So, it sounds like you a 15 year old boy that hasn’t come terms with his sexual orientation.
CLOSE! 35 years old, but you’re on point with your broken English. Or should I say “you is on point”? I’m here to help the less fortunate with their squabbles
So, I missed out on your physical age. But your arrogance, emotional, and intellectual maturity in your attempt to add to the conversation suggests you are 15 year old. The last Giants Pitcher that suffered a similar injury had his arm amputated. So, your derision is scorned.
Dave Dravecky? He had cancer then the bone snapped when he was pitching, he wasn’t hit by a ball. Two completely different things, but you are a moron so it’s clear the difference is lost on you.
Vince you are a pretentious idiot. The last player to suffer such an injury was Bumgarner himself.
@Vince
What’s your issue? After reading the original post you responded to I dont see what got your initial response going.
I choose to believe you saw something in the original post that you misunderstood..as scorn?… because if that isnt the case than you are just an unbelievably, monumental jerk.
And you sound like a grumpy old man…get off my lawn!
35 ain’t old, when you get there
Just wait until you got a lawn and can shout “get off my lawn”. You are gonna have so much fun.
Gorm,
I’m sixty five. I’m the guy who has been taking a dump on your front lawn. SFGG helps me get home every morning. Could you please do me a kindness and leave a roll of toilet paper?. A good neighbor would accommodate.
Wouldn’t you prefer baby wipes? Might be a little easier there for ya old fella
gorm you sound like a grumpy teen, mom get out of my room.
Projecting much, Vince? That was a pretty specific retort there, ol boy. #itgetsbetter
Vince, you like talking to 15 year old boys on the internet?
I’m Chris Hansen… have a seat.
When will people stop overvaluing this dude for playoff glory from 5 years ago?
When he proves otherwise. Game is about historical values and you can disprove him/that when he’s there and fails. Other than that he’s a horse and I wouldn’t want anyone else out there for a game 7
I would take Bumgarner in game 1 and game 5/7 over Soroka, Teheran, Fried, DK, what ever else they throw out there. Honestly depressing writing this out know how terrible the Braves rotation is.
Look on the bright side. You could have the Phillies’ rotation. Nola and 4 days of rain.
Nola is better than every single Braves pitcher right now and in the minors. Also, the Phillies care more about winning than the Braves. If they need a starter, they will sign or trade for one. The Braves would rather stock pile them to reassure fans help is on the way even though Soroka is the only one whose been successful.
The Phillies care more about winning? Are you sure? They haven’t won nearly as much as the Braves the past year and a half.
LOL @ Philly fans. Always good for a chuckle.
The braves are in 1st place and it has a lot to do with their pitching.
So..the Braves just stumbled ahead of the Phillies to first place? Man..I can’t WAIT for the Braves to start caring. They’ll win 140 games.
@ Mack. This may be a surpriss but he’s actually a Braves fan. Just a really terrible one. He will refer to himself as realistic though.
@ allourgodshaveabandedus.
I thought about abbreviating your name but AOGHAU seems worse. You remind me of a character in the movie Major League. The contentious fan that no matter how well the Indians are doing will always be disparaging. =)
Any intelligent unbiased person will tell you the Braves have zero shot beating the Dodgers in the playoffs with the current pitching. This is mostly the same team from last year. They were embarrassed last year and they will likely be embarrassed again unless they trade their overhyped pitching prospects.
His arm welted up but he looked fine on the mound the next inning. With the all-star break coming up, the Giants might shuffle the rotation a little coming out of the break but I can’t imagine he’ll miss any starts.
Maybe they could shuffle Pomeranz to the dumpster fire outside Oracle Park.
I think the Giants can resolve the homeless situation in San Francisco. Pitch a tent for every season ticket holder who didn’t renew this year. They have the dumpster fire to keep everyone warm. They also have all those new condos that the ownership group is finding hard to sell. This could be urban renewal at its best. Poaey, Crawford, Panik, Belt could all earn their contracts by feeding the homeless.
Let’s not limit this to position players. Samardzija and Melancon could feed at least 100 families a day. And don’t forget Peavy and Cain. They stole enough money from the Giants that there should be a theft tax applied to them.
Who says California has a lot of taxes. I can think of more.
who cares his era is very high he stinks now
The truth at the Break
Colossal Fails
(*) = Core Player
*Posey 216 at bats, batting .255, 3 Homers, 22 RBIs, OPS .696
*Belt 272 at bats batting .239, 10 Homers 33 RBI’s, OPS .790
*Crawford 273 at bats, batting .223, 5 Honers, 28 RBIs, OPS.635
*Panik 287 at bats, batting .230, 3 Homers, 22 RBIs, OPS .625
Austin 113 at bats, batting .186, 7 Homers, 19 RBIs, OPS .688
Pleasant Surprises
Dickerson 45 at bats, batting .356, 4 Homers, 15 RBIs, OPS 1231
Slater 11 at bats, batting .545, 2 Homers, 9 RBIs, OPS 2070
Solano 80 at bats, batting .300, 1 Homer, 8 RBIs, OPS 717
Sandoval 177 at bats, batting .288, 11 Homers, 33 RBIs, OPS 895
*Longoria 266 at bats, batting .237, 11 Homers, 36 RBIs, OPS 742
Pillar 309 at bats, batting .259, 12 Homers, 47 RBIs, OPS .728
Playing to potential
Duggar 248 at bats, batting .234, 4 Homers, 28 RBIs, OPS .620
Vogt 100 at bats, batting 260, 2 Homers, 13 RBIs, OPS .797
May not make it
Yastrzemski 120 at bats, batting .242, 5 Homers, 16 RBIs, OPS. 717
It’s ok. Thankfully, he should now come off Yankees’ fans radar. He’s not or has ever been “the answer.” Thankfully, Cashman can scratch that outlandish possibility and I guess we’l see what happens.
Oh, by the way, any Yankees’ fan that thinks Justin Verlander is the “be-all, end-all” if pitching forgets how well the Yankees hit him when he was with Detroit.
Just saying….
hard to say. with stroman hitting the il the pickings are getting slimmer.
This wont slow down yankee fans. They are still dreaming of getting Nolan Ryan.
Come on now you know they’d rather acquire Bob Gibson.
No one can pitch in the new Yankee stadium. Bumgarner’s ERA would be 12 there. Land is too expensive for an East coast baseball teams to have a real baseball stadium.. Just load up on more Lumberjacks and lose when real pitching counts most. During the playoffs.
The best available rental starter has an ERA of 4.03? If traded, will he stay in the NL?
Be careful talking about ERA on here. People get upset, especially when the numbers don’t match up with their affinity for a pitcher who isn’t near as good on the mound as they are in their minds.
Astute comment! Giant fans have been crowing that Bumgarner is the second coming ever since he fell off his motor bike.
shouldve traded him last year
Did he get pissed off and yell at Martinez to run to first?
If Pablo didn’t weigh 485 pounds he would have caught that line drive in the air after it hit Bumgarner. Bum was actually yelling at Pablo “Fat bottom third baseman, get on your bike and ride.”
Dude, if you have been in the league for a couple of years and hit a homer off of a three time World Series champ, who’s established himself as one of the best pitchers in baseball over the last 8 years, you put your head down and run, Muncy has accomplished what? Nothing! A couple of good seasons where at any point can tank. Don’t gloat, or show up anyone with that much time in. Win a World Series then open your mouth. Lost respect for Muncy on that. But hey, it’s good to have a Puig back in a LA uniform.
Yessir, I agree. And then gets a shirt made up with his little slogan on it. Nice job back to back NL pennant winners.
Yep, agreed Balk. Head down, run, be happy you connected on a big bomb.
Or get him out, then you don’t have to worry about it.
Wow. Just wow. This message board is something else.
Any Bumgarner board will contain three types of dudes. The delusional giants fan who thinks Bumgarner will win the cy young this year so we should get every teams top 4 prospects for him. The casual giants fan who only sees the name Bumgarner and thinks we shouldn’t trade him and that we can still make the wild card. And the opposing fan who hates on Bumgarner way more than necessary, probably because he knocked their team out of the playoffs sometime in the last decade
Those opposing fans are the same ones proposing bottom of the barrel prospects in trade scenarios, and were the same ones hating on Verlander two years ago.
as much as i don’t want to ve happy for someone getting injured, this helps the Phillies. it seemed fairly likely they were going to meet SF’s unreasonably high asking price for a pitcher who now looks like a 3 at best.
Madison Bumgarner to you haters with Cheeto stained fingers “the rumors of my demise are greatly exaggerated”!
his numbers say otherwise
Do you think Farhan called down to the dugout to have Bum removed. ???
Just saying. . .
Here’s looking at you Mets. !!!
Lol, quite a bit of interesting comments above. My goodness. This got ugly fast. We can debate Bum’s value all we want, it doesn’t matter. He is worth whatever the highest bidder offers. Zaidi can move him or keep him if he doesn’t get what he wants.
As far as other comments, I am disappointed with Panik more than the others (Longoria, Posey, Belt, Crawford) I had a feeling those 4 would continue to digress but Belt does manage to see a lot of pitches and get on base. They can’t trade these guys and there’s no heir apparent in the minors who is ready to step in now so they have to stick with them. Panik is still young and had a great spring. He dropped a few pounds and is faster. He puts the ball in play but he’s gotta do better than .230. He’s a .280+ guy. I’m hoping he can turn it around. Panik can still improve but he needs to get it going soon.
Most realists knew this year was going to be rough and it has been. We knew the offense would struggle, which it has. I think most of us are disappointed with the starting pitching, thought it would be better. The good news is that the OF looks better, guys hitting with some power out there. They are scoring more runs and the SP has somewhat stabilized. They’ve been more entertaining the past couple weeks and that’s all I can ask for. Play like you care, put some pressure on the other team and get after it.
I’m surprised how much rope Panik has been given. He’ll likely remain on the team the rest of the year but he won’t be offered arbitration and won’t get much more than a minor league deal with an invite to spring training by anybody else. He’ll drift into obscurity soon enough.
Trying to stay on a sinking ship