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Giants’ Madison Bumgarner dresses as Paul Bunyan (Photo)

By Patrick Schmidt

Feb 19, 2015; Glendale, AZ, USA; San Francisco Giants pitcher Madison Bumgarner throws a bullpen session during spring training practice at Scottsdale Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports
Feb 19, 2015; Glendale, AZ, USA; San Francisco Giants pitcher Madison Bumgarner throws a bullpen session during spring training practice at Scottsdale Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports /
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San Francisco Giants ace Madison Bumgarner showed up at spring training looking like Paul Bunyan and it was glorious.

When you win the World Series MVP after going 2-0 with a 0.43 ERA and even pick up a save in relief like Madison Bumgarner did last year with the Giants, you can wear a banana suit and no one is going to second guess your wardrobe decisions.

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But when you’re Madison Bumgarner and show up to spring training dressed as Paul Bunyan and go the extra mile by having a giant ox at your side, well you’re just adding to your legend and could go down in history in similar vein as the lumberjack in American folklore.

Check out this amazing picture that the Giants official twitter account shared on Monday as pitchers and catchers showed up for their title defense.

If only the ox was blue like Babe the blue ox and this would really be a home run. But then again, Mad Bum doesn’t give up too many of those.

But, I mean, can we just give him the Cy Young now and call it a day?

Okay, that’s far premature and clearly I’m being sarcastic, but I gotta love the personality of Bumgarner who was Sports Illustrated’s Sportsman of the Year last year and one of the true greats playing in MLB today.

Bumgarner went 18-10 with a 2.98 ERA in the regular season and finished fourth in the Cy Young voting, but saved his best for the postseason where he was almost unhittable.

He tossed a four-hit, 10-strikeout shutout in the wild card game against the Pittsburgh Pirates to advance to the NLDS here they knocked off the Washington Nationals to play the St. Louis Cardinals in the NLCS where he won the MVP. Bumgarner went 1-0 with a 1.72 ERA with 12 strikeouts in 12 innings, but those numbers paled to what he did against the Kansas City Royals in the World Series.

Bumgarner made two starts and one relief appearance on short rest to clinch the team’s third title since 2010 when he allowed one earned run in 21 innings to cement himself as one of, if not the game’s greatest pitcher and surely the game’s best big-game pitcher.

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