The San Francisco Giants signed another one of their starting pitchers to a long contract, inking Madison Bumgarner through 2017, with 2018 and 2019 options.
Even More Madison Bumgarner Contract Extension Details Revealed
The news the most people care about is that the San Francisco Giants signed Madison Bumgarner to a five-year contract extension, with an additional two years of options. Fewer people care about how much the contract is worth. Fewer people still care about the year-by-year breakdown of said contract. So here we are, with the year-by-year breakdown of said contract! We will smother you with numbers.
Read Article >Madison Bumgarner Contract Extension Details Revealed
Bumgarner has one year and 127 days of big-league service. That’s right around the projected cutoff for Super 2s (which you can read more about here). So the Giants can’t yet know whether they’ve guaranteed $35 million or $40 million. But, of course, that’s why the different guarantees are built in. If the Giants knew what was going to happen, we wouldn’t even be talking about this.
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