The San Francisco Giants will have a big decision to make this offseason regarding the status of homegrown ace Madison Bumgarner.
While he has clearly established himself as a franchise icon, there comes a time in every player’s career where a change of scenery becomes a realistic possibility, and that time has come for Bumgarner.
Now on the other side of 30 and with a hard-hit ball percentage that has steadily risen from 30.1 percent in 2015 to 41.2 percent in 2019, he’s simply not the same elite starter he was in his prime.