LOS ANGELES — San Francisco Giants pitcher Madison Bumgarner is joining the Arizona Diamondbacks in a five-year deal worth $85 million, multiple US reports said on Sunday.

Bumgarner, a three-time World Series winner with the Giants, heads to Arizona after 11 seasons in San Francisco.

The 30-year-old is widely regarded as one of the most reliable pitchers in Major League Baseball ever since emerging at the start of the decade, helping the Giants win the World Series in 2010.

Bumgarner also helped the team to World Series in 2012 and 2014.

In 285 starts since 2010, the lefthander has a 3.14 earned run average with 119 wins against 92 losses.

He had entered free agency at the end of the 2019 season and had been linked with a surprise move to the Los Angeles Dodgers before the Diamondbacks swooped.

In other trade news on Sunday, two-time Cy Young Award-winning pitcher Corey Kluber joined the Texas Rangers in a deal with the Cleveland Indians.

Kluber, 33, heads to Texas in a move that sends Rangers center-fielder Delino DeShields and reliever Emmanuel Clase to Cleveland.

Kluber, the American League's Cy Young winner in 2014 and 2017, missed most of last season after suffering a fractured right arm when he was hit by a line drive on May 1.

He worked his way back to fitness and was close to returning in August only to suffer a strained oblique muscle which ended his season.

Kluber, who just missed out on a World Series title with Cleveland in 2016 when the Indians were defeated in seven games by the Chicago Cubs, has an earned run average of 3.16 through his career with 98 wins and 58 losses. — AFP