Madison Bumgarner

Bumegarner, 28, is soon to be due for a massive contract extension after the 2019 season, when he would become an unrestricted free agent.

With the memory of their three championships overshadowed by 98 losses last season, the question of whether the Giants should trade Madison Bumgarner is starting to be asked and Andrew Baggarly gave his answer on Tolbert & Lund Friday afternoon.

There’s no modern precedent for gauging how a player like Ohtani would handle the rigors of a 162-game season if the Giants signed him to serve as a member of their starting rotation and as a regular outfielder, but that doesn’t mean analysts haven’t tried.

Kruegs asks well-respected MLB reporter Nick Cafardo from the Boston Globe about the actual possibility of Giants’ brass packaging one of their core players (Posey, Bumgarner, Crawford) in a potential trade this offseason.

On Monday morning, Giants’ general manager Bobby Evans confirmed that the franchise had exercised options on both Bumgarner and Sandoval, as Evans said that both players will be with the club this spring.

Just four seasons ago, the Giants endured their own Game 7, a heart-stopping, panic-inducing 3-2 win over the Kansas City Royals that turned Madison Bumgarner into a baseball icon.

Coming off their disastrous 64-98 season–their worst since losing 100 games in 1985–Bob Nightengale joined KNBR Tonight and discussed the Giants’ future.

“The greatest moments? It’s hard to really sum it all up.”

The golden era of Giants’ baseball was so stunning in scope, so prolific in perspective and so remarkable in real-time that it’s effortless to let slip from memory the period that begat San Francisco’s sensational rise to the top of the sporting world.

Matt Cain called a team meeting at 11:30 Wednesday morning, and 15 minutes later, he told reporters that he called it to tell his teammates that his Saturday start at AT&T Park will be his last. The 13-year veteran plans on retiring.