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Madison Bumgarner  

Known as "Mad Bum", an American Professional Baseball Starting Pitcher, San Francisco Giants; Most Valuable Player of the 2014 World Series

Madison Kyle Bumgarner, nicknamed "Mad Bum," is an American professional baseball starting pitcher with the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball who was the Most Valuable Player of the 2014 World Series, his third World Series championship as a Giant.

Bumgarner was born in Hickory, North Carolina, and attended South Caldwell High School in Hudson, where he helped his baseball team win the 2007 4A State Championship. He was drafted by the San Francisco Giants in the first round (tenth overall) in the 2007 Major League Baseball Draft out of high school. In his first year playing professionally, 2008, he won the South Atlantic League pitching triple crown. He made his major league debut in 2009 with the Giants. In 2010, he began the season in the minor leagues but was called up midway through the season and wound up becoming the youngest left-handed pitcher to throw eight scoreless innings in a World Series as the Giants won the 2010 World Series, their first since 1954. He got off to an 0–5 start in 2011 but managed to finish with a 13–13 record. In 2014, Bumgarner set a career high number of wins with 18 and won his third World Series. He had the best ERA of his career in 2013, at 2.77, and started on Opening Day for the Giants in 2014.

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