As franchise-ruining embarrassing as last night’s loss last night for the Rockies was, another poor showing today against the struggling Madison Bumgarner would elevate the organization to the top of the contraction list.
After his previous start, I took a look at his Statcast data to see if there was a trend in the pitching data to explain why he had gone from the Giants’ best starter to 2000-era Shawn Estes, and lo and behold, it turns out that the spin rates of all his pitches have declined sharply since the dirt bike accident.