When Diamondbacks left-hander Madison Bumgarner thinks back to the way he handled last year — from the sudden end of spring training through the quarantine period and into the start of summer camp — there is one thing he would change. He wonders if it would have made a difference in the way his year unfolded.
“The only thing I wish I would have done different last year was kept (my throwing) at a steady pace instead of getting way up here and then dropping back down and then way up,” Bumgarner said. “We didn’t really know what to plan for.