It’s a good thing Tim Lincecum led baseball in strikeouts while winning the National League’s Cy Young Award in 2008. Otherwise, he might have been asked to take a pay cut.
On the heels of an 18-4 season with a 2.62 ERA and 265 strikeouts over 227 innings with San Francisco, the 24-year-old righty agreed to a one-year, $650,000 contract with the Giants, well below the average major league salary of $3.15 million.
Despite being only 5’10” and 170 pounds, Lincecum can throw nearly 100 miles per hour using a unique delivery that made him a bit of a drawing card for the Giants. He was the tenth player taken in the 2006 draft after winning the Golden Spikes Award as college baseball’s top player at the University of Washington.
Lincecum will be eligible for salary arbitration after this season.
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