Madison Bumgarner

[DawgatAuburn]

Out 6-8 weeks or even more from injuries suffered in an accident on his dirt bike. He's gonna have to do a **** ton of commmunity service for that.

 

[msstate7]

I bet he was really having an affair with a subordinate in the giants' organization**

 

[Todd4State]

The 6-8 weeks is speculation at this point. He's going to have it looked at on Monday and then they will know more. Could be 6-8 weeks but it also could be more.

I heard that they aren't going to take any pay out of his contract one way or the other. The backstory is the Giants wanted him to ride a horse or something when they were celebrating their World Series win and Bumgarner didn't want to do it because he was afraid the horse would throw him off or something but they kind of made him do it anyway. The Giants are worried that he if they dock his pay he's going to the Player's Association and use that incident to claim that how can the Giants dock him for doing something risky and at the same time force him to do something risky like ride a horse he didn't know in front of a huge crowd that he was leery about riding in the first place? The reason that they at worried about that is because he complained about that horse incident when he wanted to participate in the Home Run Derby last year but the Giants didn't want him to do the derby. He would probably win too. So they're just going to let it go and pay him the full contract.

The good news is this might be Chris Stratton's big break. The Giants called him up to replace Bumgarner on the roster.

 

[57stratdawg]

You would know better than I would, but isn't Stratton's window for having much of a MLB career quickly closing / closed?

 

[Todd4State]

He's 26 so he's starting to get old in baseball terms. He just needs to stick- and I think there is a good chance he will.

Him getting hit in the head in the minors really set him back a little bit.

 

[PineGroveBully]

I missed the him getting hit in the head deal

What happened and when? I don't think the window is closing at 26 but he needs to really turn heads in this long relief role. Oppurtunities to pitch for a good organization like the Giants and for a good manager like Bochy don't come around very often so he better grab it by the balls and not give them a choice of sending him back down.

 

[Todd4State]

He got hit in the head with a batted ball in rookie ball or low A ball when his career first started.

 

[HotMop]

Sounds like his first game was a good one.

http://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2017/4/22/15397432/chris-stratton-sf-giants-immolation