Madison Bumgarner Is Back On His Bullshit, Hits A Bomb In Spring Training

I’m not one of those guys who thinks that if Madison Bumgarner played a full season as a position player that he’d be this big time slugger or anything like that, but I can definitely see why he’d be the gold standard for National League fans who feel passionately about keeping the DH out of the NL. It’s fun to watch this dude hit. And it’s not even that he just “hits” home runs; he fucking crushes them.

But it’s also worth noting that since 2012, the season that he hit his first major league home run, he’s hit .196 with a .598 OPS, 17 homers, 12 doubles, and 48 RBI in 436 plate appearances. To put that in perspective, if you set the qualifier at 436 plate appearances, a .598 OPS would’ve ranked dead last in the majors last season out of 190 players.

However, Bumgarner’s 17 home runs since the start of 2012 are nearly double the amount as the pitcher with the next most (Travis Wood, 9).