Madison Bumgarner to D-backs: Giants' Buster Posey, Brandon Crawford react

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Every MLB roster goes through changes year after year. The Giants are no different.

But since May 2011, there have been three consistencies in San Francisco: Buster Posey has been behind the dish, Brandon Crawford has been at shortstop and Madison Bumgarner has been in the starting rotation. The final part of that equation is no more. 

Bumgarner reportedly agreed to a five-year, $85 million contract to join the Arizona Diamondbacks. There he will join former Giants catcher Stephen Vogt, and play his old teammates plenty of times as he stays in the NL West. 

Posey praised Bumgarner for his competitiveness, and told The Athletic's Andrew Baggarly that he's looking forward to facing MadBum. 

Baggarly also got a hold of Crawford, who admitted it "definitely will be weird" hitting off Bumgarner. 

Bumgarner and Posey won three World Series rings together, with Crawford being a part of the final two. But the amount of times Posey caught the lefty truly is wild to look at. 

[RELATED: Bumgarner leaving shows Giants now in full-blown rebuild]

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The 30-year-old Bumgarner has pitched in 289 regular-season major league games. Posey has caught 228 of them. He has been in the squat for 1,451 1/3 innings of Bumgarner's 1,846 innings pitched in the regular season. The two were battery mates many, many more times in the playoffs as well. 

With the Giants moving on from Bumgarner, it's clear a full rebuild is going down in San Francisco. We might be counting down Posey and Crawford's playing days here, too. 

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