Bumgarner signs with Arizona; 5-years, $85M / Rangers get Kluber [View all]
The team has reached agreement with free agent left-hander Madison Bumgarner on a five-year contract, a baseball source confirmed, and the deal is worth $85 million, with $15 million deferred, according to another source.
Bumgarner, 30, was the highest-profile free-agent starter remaining on the market after the signings of fellow free agents Gerrit Cole, Stephen Strasburg and Zack Wheeler. The Giants, Bumgarner's longtime organization, will receive a compensation pick after Competitive Balance Round B in next June's MLB Draft, since Bumgarner declined their one-year, $17.8 million qualifying offer in November. In turn, the D-backs will surrender their second-round pick.
The acquisition of Bumgarner would seem to make it more likely that the D-backs will deal left-hander Robbie Ray this winter.
If Ray is dealt, Bumgarner would head a rotation that will also include Luke Weaver, Mike Leake, Zac Gallen and Merrill Kelly.
MORE: https://www.mlb.com/breaking-news/madison-bumgarner-deal-arizona-diamondbacks
The Rangers have acquired a proven No. 1 starter for their starting rotation.
They just need right-hander Corey Kluber to be fully recovered from a broken right forearm and strained oblique muscle that sidelined him for most of 2019. If so, the two-time Cy Young Award winner could fit at the top of the Rangers rotation for at least the next two seasons.
Kluber, who took home the Cy Young Award in 2014 and '17 and won 20 games in '18, was acquired from the Indians on Sunday for outfielder Delino DeShields and reliever Emmanuel Clase. The Rangers have never had a Cy Young winner in club history and their last 20-game winner was Rick Helling in 1998.
Kluber joins a Rangers rotation that already has Mike Minor and Lance Lynn at the top and Kyle Gibson and Jordan Lyles at the back end.
MORE: https://www.mlb.com/breaking-news/corey-kluber-trade
Sunday's double gut punch. Expected -- both players have their prime years behind them -- but still sad.
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