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Madison Bumgarner DFA’d by Diamondbacks

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After a rough outing against the St. Louis Cardinals yesterday afternoon, the Diamondbacks DFA’d starting pitcher Madison Bumgarner from the team earlier this morning.

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With this move, the Diamondbacks will eat more than $34 million remaining on his contract. Bumgarner signed a five-year $85 million deal with Arizona before the 2020 season.

In 4 years with the team, he’s posted an ERA of 5.23 over 69 starts, and his ERA this season has gone up to 10.23 after a tough game against the Cardinals yesterday.

Bumgarner is owed $20.4 million dollars for the remainder of this year and $14 million dollars next year as what will look back to be one of the worst free agent signings in Diamondbacks history.

At the time it made sense as Bumgarner is a three-time champion with the San Francisco Giants and has had a lot of postseason success throughout his career. Unfortunately, those days are gone and the Diamondbacks who have a young up-and-coming team, had to go in a new direction.

Diamondbacks General Manager Torrey Lovullo talked about the game yesterday and voiced his frustration about the way Bumgarner pitched and how he feels bad for him and the team.

“It’s very tough,” Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo said Wednesday. “The empathetic side of me hurts for him, and I want every pitcher to do well and I know how hard he’s working. He’s just grinding.

“The other side of me is extremely frustrated. I just want to see everybody do well to help us win baseball games, and of course, that didn’t happen today.”

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It’s clear to say now with the way Bumgarner’s play has dipped over the years, that this decision was bound to come eventually. Here we are now and the D-Backs are looking ahead to the future.

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