Madison Bumgarner leaving the Giants for the Arizona Diamondbacks didn’t surprise one of his former teammates, who said the star pitcher’s exit from San Francisco may have been more than three years in the making.
Michael Morse, who played with San Francisco in 2014 and again in 2017 and is a close friend of Bumgarner’s, said on KNBR’s “Papa & Lund” show Wednesday the left-hander received what amounted to an insulting contract extension offer from the Giants after his infamous dirt-bike accident in 2017.
“The biggest thing that I think is when they did offer him an extension, it was very, very short of what he was thinking, to the point that it might’ve been even a slap-in-the-face kind of thing,” Morse told KNBR of an offer extended after Bumgarner’s accident and with two years left on his existing deal.