MLB trade rumors: More proof Yankees’ Brian Cashman will miss on Giants’ Madison Bumgarner

New York Yankees general manager Brian Cashman is at the GM Meetings in Carlsbad, Calif. shopping for starting pitching. He already re-signed CC Sabathia, and is expected to bid for free-agent left-handers Patrick Corbin and Dallas Keuchel. But don’t expect Cashman to trade for San Francisco Giants ace Madison Bumgarner.

Yankees general manager Brian Cashman is busy working to rebuild the team’s starting rotation for 2019.

Yes, CC Sabathia will return, after agreeing to a one-year, $8 million contract.

But Cashman remains in the hunt for free-agent left-handers Patrick Corbin and Dallas Keuchel.

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It looks like Cashman should scour the GM Meetings in Carlsbad, Calif. for pitching, because at least one big name appears to be coming off the hot stove trade market, according to The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal:

The future of left-hander Madison Bumgarner is one of the first questions Zaidi will face on Wednesday when he is introduced as the Giants’ president of baseball operations. But a trade of Bumgarner still seems unlikely, at least in the short-term — and not simply because of the pitcher’s declining velocity and strikeout rate.

The free-agent market is flooded with left-handed starting pitchers, from Patrick Corbin to Dallas Keuchel to J.A. Happ; Hyun-Jin Ryu to Yusei Kikuchi to Wade Miley. The demand for Bumgarner almost certainly would be greater at the non-waiver deadline, and he presumably will be healthier than he was in the past two seasons, increasing his chances of success leading to July 31.

One rival executive questions whether the Giants possess the “intestinal fortitude” to rebuild the way they should. The awarding of a five-year contract to Zaidi — while perhaps necessary to pry him away from the Dodgers — would seem to indicate ownership’s willingness to be patient. But however the team proceeds, it’s probably too soon to trade Bumgarner.

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