After starring with the Giants, Madison Bumgarner declined steeply with the Diamondbacks, leaving everyone searching for what went wrong. “We’ve all lost a lot of sleep over trying to answer that question.' ZHBuchanan details the downfall:
The break with Haren was emblematic of the larger issue. Bumgarner, who did not return a request for comment made through his representative, wanted to do things his way, the same way he’d always done them. Haren, and others in the organization, felt he needed to do things differently in order to keep pace with a changing game and his own aging body.
In December of 2019, when the Diamondbacks signed Bumgarner to what was then the second-biggest free-agent deal in team history, the contract raised eyebrows. There were mechanical suggestions. Bumgarner used to face the hitter head-on but had altered his delivery over the years to stand more perpendicular to the plate, which made his arm late. Switching back, some on the coaching staff believed, would help his lagging command. A more recent attempted fix was to reposition Bumgarner to the third-base side of the rubber.
“We tried to do it mechanically. That didn’t work out,” Strom said. “Then we tried to do it with pitch selection, identifying which pitches were the best for him to throw, and we just couldn’t get off the mark.” Strom is just as big a fan of information, but his relationship with Bumgarner became strained last summer, midway through the coach’s first season with the club. During a road series in July, multiple sources said, Bumgarner caught wind of Strom’s frustration with the veteran pitcher. The two were said to have hashed it out, but Bumgarner’s trust in the coach was damaged, multiple sources say.
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