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"The Freak" is back! Timmy Lincecum signed a one year contract with the Rangers
The scrawny freaky SF Giants pitcher lost all his stuff after season ending hip surgery in 2015, played one lackluster year with the Angles, then sat out a year. He's back, and rumors are he bulked up to put the surgery behind him, and has found his stuff again. Looks like he will be play from the bullpen after a minor league tune-up tour.
https://www.mlb.com/news/rangers-tim-lincecum-have-deal/c-267367372
This SF Giants fan misses him, but wishes him the best. Hell, if things go well and he genuinely found his stuff, he could ease back into the starting rotation.
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A Rockies reliever broke the news that Tim Lincecum was ripped and pitching again
By Ted Berg
March 16, 2018
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Before a redeye flight home from Seattle in December, Rockies reliever Adam Ottavino shared a photo of an old friend on Instagram. By the morning, he had dozens of texts, peppering him with questions about the big baseball news he broke on social media: Tim Lincecum was throwing again. And he looked utterly swole.
“I really didn’t expect it to be like that,” Ottavino said at Rockies camp this week. “I didn’t think I would totally blow his cover. I felt like, in the picture — it wasn’t obvious where it was, you know what I mean?”
Lincecum, one of the most recognizable, most beloved, and for a while, most dominant pitchers of his era, last saw Major League action with the Angels in 2016.
Some fans spotted him at a women’s rights demonstration in the wake of Donald Trump’s inauguration, but he did not play anywhere in 2017, and a Mercury News reporter sent to track him down in September turned up nothing.
Ottavino and Lincecum go back to 2005, when they pitched together on the Harwich Mariners of the Cape Cod League. And when Lincecum heard that Ottavino was coming to Driveline Baseball in Kent, Washington to hone his repertoire, he was there to surprise his old friend upon arrival. Lincecum, a Washington native, had contacted Driveline founder Kyle Boddy months earlier, had been working out there since and, by that point, could clearly no longer be contained by sleeves.
“Tim started coming in three days a week, and then four, an then five, until he was basically there every day,” Boddy said. “He was there seven days a week for two straight months, all on his own accord. He was an incredible worker.
“He came in pretty big — he weighed 206 when he came in, and cut down significantly. He was lifting before he came to us, so he was really strong, just a little overweight. His body is not naturally 200, so when he cut weight, he looked pretty good.”
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http://ftw.usatoday.com/2018/03/adam-ottavino-colorado-rockies-tim-lincecum-instagram-gym-lincecum-mlb-rangers-giants
By Ted Berg
March 16, 2018
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Before a redeye flight home from Seattle in December, Rockies reliever Adam Ottavino shared a photo of an old friend on Instagram. By the morning, he had dozens of texts, peppering him with questions about the big baseball news he broke on social media: Tim Lincecum was throwing again. And he looked utterly swole.
“I really didn’t expect it to be like that,” Ottavino said at Rockies camp this week. “I didn’t think I would totally blow his cover. I felt like, in the picture — it wasn’t obvious where it was, you know what I mean?”
Lincecum, one of the most recognizable, most beloved, and for a while, most dominant pitchers of his era, last saw Major League action with the Angels in 2016.
Some fans spotted him at a women’s rights demonstration in the wake of Donald Trump’s inauguration, but he did not play anywhere in 2017, and a Mercury News reporter sent to track him down in September turned up nothing.
Ottavino and Lincecum go back to 2005, when they pitched together on the Harwich Mariners of the Cape Cod League. And when Lincecum heard that Ottavino was coming to Driveline Baseball in Kent, Washington to hone his repertoire, he was there to surprise his old friend upon arrival. Lincecum, a Washington native, had contacted Driveline founder Kyle Boddy months earlier, had been working out there since and, by that point, could clearly no longer be contained by sleeves.
“Tim started coming in three days a week, and then four, an then five, until he was basically there every day,” Boddy said. “He was there seven days a week for two straight months, all on his own accord. He was an incredible worker.
“He came in pretty big — he weighed 206 when he came in, and cut down significantly. He was lifting before he came to us, so he was really strong, just a little overweight. His body is not naturally 200, so when he cut weight, he looked pretty good.”
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http://ftw.usatoday.com/2018/03/adam-ottavino-colorado-rockies-tim-lincecum-instagram-gym-lincecum-mlb-rangers-giants