NL Cy Young Award Winner: Giants’ Tim Lincecum
Annnd let’s give a nice warm hand for 2008 NL Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum (who?)
Tim’s nickname is “The Franchise” and “The Freak”.
This is just his 2nd year in the majors. He was drafted by the Cubs in 2003 but refused to sign. He was drafted by the Indians in 2005 but refused to sign. He finally was drafted in 2006 by the Giants (with a $2+ million bonus).
In 2007, he was in the minors, and got called up to pitch with the Giants (pitcher’s ballpark). in 2007 he was 7-5, 4.00 ERA over 146.1 innings, which is great for a rookie on a bad team.
This year, Tim (24 years old) went 18-5, 2.62 with 227 innings pitched. He struck out 265 men to win the NL strikeout title.
Lincecum beat out
Brandon Webb (22-7, 3.30, 226.2 IP, 183K)
Johan Santana (16-7. 2.53, 234.1 IP, 206K)
C.C Sabathia [NL-stats only] (11-2, 1.65, 130.2 IP, 128K)
In other baseball news:
The Washington Nationals got left-handed starter Scott Olsen and outfielder Josh Willingham from the Marlins. Both players were key compnents in Florida’s team these past couple of years. Olsen had attitude problems as was due a raise; that doesn’t bode well for being a Marlin. Josh is a decent outfielder with some pop in his bat.
The Marlins got second basemen Emilio Bonifacio and Jake Smolinski and right-hander pitcher P.J. Dean. None of these guys look to help the Marlins in 2009. The Marlins just save money (Olsen and Josh were due around 2-3 million next year). Pretty pathetic.
A Marlins apologist says: “Let’s don’t forget that [Marlins GM] Beinfest is pretty good at identifying the right “stuff” for which to trade when he is forced to do so by the budgetary limits imposed by his ridiculous ownership. If I know nothing else about Dean and Smolinski other than that Beinfest acquired them, that alone gives them at least a bit of credibility in my eyes. “
RIP
Herb Score the Cleveland Indian pitcher and American League Rookie of the Year in 1955 died.
Herb was the Voice of the Indians in the announcing booth.
Preacher Roe, one of the aces of the “Boys of Summer” Dodgers in Brooklyn from 1948-53, died.
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The reason why the Yankees did not make the playoffs was because the other teams caught up to them and passed them. The Yankees keep signing these players who only have a couple good yrs left in them and they keep holding onto guys like Pettitte, Posada, Jeter, and Matsui when they are no longer good players. They are all average players for their positions. The Red Sox and Rays are the perfect example of what is wrong with the Yankees they are built around younger more athletic talent and the Yankees are stuck with middle aged passed their prime talent for the most part. The Yankees will not be a contender until they let go of these old guys and get some young athletes on the team. MLB is a different game its a younger more athletic game now look around at all the good teams they are built around young talent not veteran talent.
Since 2001 the Yankees have spent more & gotten less. They are no longer a "Team", just a group of very expensive players who play together at Yankee Stadium. I really feel that being a "Fan" is just a waste of my time.
I mean, we could have gotten those two players from the Marlins and we could have drafted Tim Lincecum.
I would bring the Giambino back at 1st on a 1 year deal with lower sal and incentives with a option for a second year.. if he can do 25 HR and 90+ RBI I would take it. If they cannot sign CC they should go with Wang/Joba/Hughes. If they start signing re-treads we are going to live 1982 through 1992 years all over again
Congradulations to Tim Lincecum!
He plays for the New York Giants
football team, right?
Oohh, snap.
On PTI, Michael Wilbon and Rick Reilly said that Tim Lincecum should not have won the Cy Young.
Wilbon went so far as to say Lincecum should’ve finished no better than fifth.
He stated Brandon Webb should have won because “nobody wins 20 games any more.”
What a loser
i think we should be patting the BBWAA on the back for having only one guy leave Lincecum off his ballot. I mean, obviously Webb was no better than the 3rd best pitcher in the league, but there are universes where you can argue that Lidge was more valuable than Lincecum, and there’s no significant difference between Lincecum and Santana. It could have been much, much worse.