Back to the MLB Newsfeed

Tim Lincecum Comments on Hip Injury, Future in MLB, More

Former San Francisco Giants pitcher and current free agent Tim Lincecum will try to prove to representatives from more than 20 MLB teams that his surgically repaired hip is healthy during a throwing session Friday, per MLB Network's Jon Heyman.

After going 33-12 over a two-year stretch with two Cy Young Awards in 2008 and 2009, Lincecum's last four years have seen him go 39-42 with an ERA worse than 4.00 in each season before he underwent hip surgery in September.

The hype is building, though, thanks to Lincecum's father telling Jeff Passan of Yahoo Sports that his son's curveball is "the best curveball I’ve seen in four years.