Mad Bum the Throwback.

[TimCarrollArt]

Originally Posted by Rickyy

Impressive thing was he didn't overthrow at all... you would think he would given the magnitude of the situation... he just took his time and made great throws... I saw on one of the Giants fan blogs...where each of his pitches to each hitter was charted...and just about every pitch was either painting the outside or inside corner...down below or just above the strike zone and nothing down the middle...

Ricky Y

It certainly was one of those performances that not only shows up in statistics, but passes the eye test as well. I put part of your quote in bold. I wonder how Bumgarner's performance would have changed if MLB had the 20-second time clock on him between pitches like they are playing around with in the Arizona Fall League. Not wanting to hijack the thread or lead it away from MadBum's historic series......the quote just had me thinking.

Tim

[Beatles Guy]

Simply dominant. Without him, the Giants would have lost in 5 or 6.

[Jobu]

It was a truly dominant performance for MadBum. He ended up throwing a career high number of innings and 70 more innings than last year - I hope he doesn't suffer an injury next year as pitchers with such large increases in innings often do. Even if he does I think you would find anyone who would have done anything differently - he won the World Series for the team.

[tschock]

Originally Posted by Jobu

It was a truly dominant performance for MadBum. He ended up throwing a career high number of innings and 70 more innings than last year - I hope he doesn't suffer an injury next year as pitchers with such large increases in innings often do. Even if he does I think you would find anyone who would have done anything differently - he won the World Series for the team.

Bryan, He appears to be a very 'loose' pitcher with his arm motion, so he has less of a chance at injury than some of the 'tighter' motions we see. Still, I hope the same as well.

[Peter_Spaeth]

He'll be fine. Whether he now becomes one of the game's elite pitchers will be interesting to see. He's only 67-49 lifetime so far, although 2014 was easily his best season to date.

[tschock]

Originally Posted by TimCarrollArt

...I wonder how Bumgarner's performance would have changed if MLB had the 20-second time clock on him between pitches like they are playing around with in the Arizona Fall League.
Tim

Tim, I don't think it would have made a whit of difference, because it would not have been just Bumgarner on the clock, so the entire league would have had to adjust. My guess is that Mad would have just worked faster with probably little difference (since he would have been pitching that way all year up to this point).

One could also wonder if the Giants would have won had they been using gloves from the early part of the 20th century, since Panik would not have made that play. But again, he may have been positioned appropriately different and made the play a lot easier as well. Or if the DH hadn't been invented, or...