The Yankees’ pipe dream is being shut down less than 24 hours after it was breathed.
No, they will not be trading for Madison Bumgarner, according to Henry Schulman of the San Francisco Chronicle, who tried to immediately shoot down Alex Rodriguez’s speculation.
Schulman tweeted, “#sfgiants not trading Bumgarner this year, and they’re certainly never going to trade one of the greatest postseason pitchers in history, perhaps THE greatest, to a team they someday might meet in October” on Wednesday afternoon, after Rodriguez floated the idea while on Fox the night before.
Bumgarner, who has pitched just one game so far this year after missing time with an injury, has been a speculative trade candidate as the Giants toil around the .500 mark. However, speculation seems to be all that is.
“The Giants have to fall out of it, and they’re not,” Rodriguez said. “But if they do [fade], I like the idea of Madison Bumgarner going to the Yankees.”
The Yankees are certainly in need of a starting pitcher. Their rotation holds a 3.94 ERA as a whole and after announcing Jordan Montgomery will undergo Tommy John surgery earlier this week, is lacking in depth. Conventional wisdom says the Yankees will trade for a pitcher by July 31, as to avoid going into the postseason with Luis Severino their only consistently reliable starter. It seems that pitcher will have to be someone other than Bumgarner.