Bumgarner Vs. Matusz: The San Francisco Giants’ Prospect Stands Taller

Madison Bumgarner.  Brian Matusz.

Remember those two names.  Remember them well.

There's a very good chance both young pitchers will be revered figures on the Major League Baseball landscape for many years to come.

The San Francisco Giants' prized hurler will turn a mind-bending 20 years old in a couple weeks on August 1.  The Baltimore Oriole ace-in-waiting is an ancient 22 years young by comparison.

Got that?

MadBum should be your typical college sophomore except, as they did with Nuke LaLoosh, the Baseball Gods "reached down and turned [his left] arm into a thunderbolt."  Because of that gift, he entered the 2009 season as the No. 9 blue-chipper in all of baseball, according to Baseball America.

Now the southpaw is No. 5.<...

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