Giants get 2020 MLB Draft pick with Madison Bumgarner going to D-backs

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The Giants are looking to the future, one that will exist for them without Madison Bumgarner. There should be plenty of young players to choose from, though. 

Because the Giants made a qualifying offer to Bumgarner, they will get an additional pick in next June’s draft. They already got one when Will Smith left for Atlanta, and both picks should be somewhere in the 75-80 range, giving them four selections in the top 80 picks of the draft. The Giants will also get additional pool money to spend on their draft picks. 

This week is a tough one for the organization with Bumgarner leaving for the division-rival Diamondbacks, but the move is the second one that helps set the team up for the future. On Tuesday, the Giants took on Zack Cozart’s contract — which has about $12 million remaining — to acquire shortstop Will Wilson, the No. 15 overall pick in last year’s draft. 

Wilson joins what has become a pretty good farm system, with Joey Bart and Heliot Ramos expected to debut next year and Marco Luciano showing flashes of being a future star. Hunter Bishop, Sean Hjelle and others are also on the way.

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The Giants decided not to stretch too far for Bumgarner, who reportedly will get $85 million over five years from the Diamondbacks. But if all goes according to plan, they’ll use their financial might to back the next young core. They could have traded Bumgarner in July but instead held on in case of an unlikely second-half run with the existing core, knowing that they could always make the qualifying offer at the end of the season and recoup a draft pick. 

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