The San Francisco Giants officially said goodbye to a longtime friend on Sunday. Yes, this was an expected development, but seeing Madison Bumgarner officially sign with another team was a surreal sight.
And truthfully, it isn’t really going to feel real until he dons an Arizona Diamondbacks jersey and steps on to the mound with them for the first time next season.
Giants fans are going through a mixed array of emotions right now.
On one hand, this was the expected outcome all along. The Giants clearly weren’t making much of an effort to re-sign him and they certainly weren’t going to pay what it took to bring him back.