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By Chris Quick on June 26, 2010
The Giants have confirmed that top pitching prospect Madison Bumgarner will make his 1st start of the 2010 season tonight against the Boston Red Sox. Why am I so nervous? Well, mostly because Bumgarner is getting a pretty tough assignment in the Red Sox. This year the Sox have been pretty tough on lefties — [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged 5th starter, buster posey, madison bumgarner, todd wellemeyer
By Chris Quick on March 15, 2010
We’ve all heard the stories, read the freakouts, Madison Bumgarner’s velocity still appears to be down after two starts in Spring Training. The quick synopsis is that Bumgarner dominated minor league hitters in 2008. His numbers from that year were videogame-like (10.4 K/9, 1.3 BB/9) and the scouting reports backed them up — throwing a [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged 5th starter, madison bumgarner, rotation, starters
By Chris Quick on February 18, 2010
Hooray, baseball is back. Well, sorta back. Here’s my annual don’t-worry-too-much-about-Spring-Training post. Yesterday Giants pitchers and catchers (and a few position players, too) found their way down to Arizona for the start of Spring Training. Today is first the official day when pitchers and catchers start working out. On February 23rd the rest of the [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged 5th starter, aaron rowand, freddy sanchez, madison bumgarner, spring training, todd wellemeyer
By Chris Quick on February 11, 2010
The Giants have signed SP/RP Todd Wellemeyer to a minor league contract with an invite to Spring Training. From the news released on SFGiants.com, it appears the team is tabbing Wellemeyer as a ‘long reliever’ but he could, theoretically, get a chance to win the 5th starter’s job this spring. Wellemeyer’s career stats: Year Age [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged 5th starter, madison bumgarner, todd wellemeyer
By Chris Quick on January 29, 2010
When left-hander, Madison Bumgarner, made his MLB debut last year, the top pitching prospect in the Giants organization showed up with less velocity than advertised. After working in the low-to-mid 90′s in the minor leagues, Giants fans were shocked to see Madison posting 88′s on the stadium radar gun. Velocity concerns aside, Bumgarner has a [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged 5th starter, free agents, madison bumgarner, pitching, pitching rotation
By Chris Quick on September 9, 2009
In a September game against the San Diego Padres, prized Giants’ prospect, Madison Bumgarner, made his major league debut at the age of 20-years-old. After being drafted in the 2007 draft, Bumgarner has made quick work of minor league hitters. In just two years, Bumgarner has thrown 273 innings, struck out 256 batters, and posted [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged madison bumgarner, pitchf/x, pitching
By Chris Quick on September 8, 2009
Holy smokes! From Schulman: Madison Bumgarner, the Giants’ best pitching prospect, is being called up to the majors today. If it was a surprise catcher Buster Posey got a September promotion, this is even more of a stunner considering Bumgarner is two years out of high school. He was the 10th overall pick in the [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged call-ups, madison bumgarner
By Chris Quick on July 24, 2009
And win a game. Barry Zito hurled 7 innings of 3-hit, 1-run baseball for the Giants while striking out 6 batters and walking 5. The bottom of the 4th inning was particularly weird when Zito did the following: Martin Prado walks. None out. Chipper Jones called out on strikes. One out. Yunel Escobar walks. Martin [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged barry zito, madison bumgarner, starting pitching, tim alderson
By Chris Quick on May 12, 2009
With the 11-7 win against the Washington Nationals last night, Randy Johnson moved one more win closer to the fabled 300 win plateu. Johnson continued his good start, bad start, good start routine with 5 IP, 8 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 0 BB, and 9 SO. It wasn’t the worst start in the world [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged madison bumgarner, pablo sandoval, randy johnson
By Chris Quick on May 7, 2009
We’ve barely entered the month of May for Giants baseball and I’m finding that more and more my gaze is turning towards minor league boxscores. I’m still enjoying the MLB team with Pablo Sandoval, Tim Lincecum, (good) Randy Johnson, and some others but with the Dodgers hot start and the Giants offense still looking like [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged brandon crawford, farm system, madison bumgarner, offense, offense stinks, prospects, sergio romo, tim alderson
