Lincecum signs $650k contract

The Giants and Tim Lincecum have reached agreement on a one-year, $650,000 contract, a source told The Chronicle. Lincecum then confirmed the figure. That constitutes a 62 percent raise over the $405,000 he earned last year. There is actually a split component to the deal. If Lincecum somehow wound up in the minors, he'd be paid at an annual rate of $243,000.

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very nice

I’m no contract expert, but that seems cheap for a Cy-Young winner, even if it’s years before he hits arbitration.

STEVE HOLM! refuses to be the odd man out.

by UnleashTheGore on Feb 26, 2009 9:19 AM PST reply actions

More than fair price for both team and player.

by wilriv21 on Feb 26, 2009 9:31 AM PST reply actions

Lincecum should be eligible for salary arbitration after this season and could see an exponential hike in pay if he has another good season.

Am I missing something here?

They say you're a pitcher; you sure aren't much of a dresser.

by CystedTwister on Feb 26, 2009 9:44 AM PST reply actions

What I mean is, I thought players needed three full years of service to be arb eligible, but I suppose that Lince would qualify as a Super 2:

(2) The top 17 percent of players with at least 2 but less than 3 years of Major League service. These are known as "Super 2" players. To qualify as a Super 2, a player must have accumulated at least 86 days of service in the previous year. Historically, the cutoff point for Super 2 status is 2 years, 128 days of service, though the requirement has been as high as 2 years, 140 days in years past.

They say you're a pitcher; you sure aren't much of a dresser.

by CystedTwister on Feb 26, 2009 9:51 AM PST up reply actions

Tim would qualify as a “Super 2” and thus be eligible for arbitration after his second season.

by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 26, 2009 9:53 AM PST up reply actions

I think it’s a safe bet that Tim will be in the top 17 percent…

Adoptive father to the All-Father. Does that make me the All-Grandfather?

by EliminateMe on Feb 26, 2009 9:53 AM PST up reply actions

He’s lucky that he doesn’t have a family to feed yet.

Fairley odd parent to Wendell

by WTF on Feb 26, 2009 10:11 AM PST reply actions

He can start stitching a CBS patch on his uni

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by SoFa King Mike on Feb 26, 2009 10:22 AM PST up reply actions

yeah, that $650 grand wouldn’t get it done.

by FluLikeSymptoms on Feb 26, 2009 12:12 PM PST up reply actions

Are you sure...?

I think $650K would buy a lot of Pringles and Kraft Macaroni and Cheese.

"It kind of gives everybody else out there who is not a big person the motivation and the inspiration that they know they can do it, too."--Tim Lincecum

by Timlincecum.com on Feb 26, 2009 12:15 PM PST up reply actions

Just wait for the baby mammas to show up.

"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.

by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Feb 26, 2009 5:22 PM PST up reply actions

Don't forget

When players aren’t married, often the “family” they have to “take care of” is their parents. It’s always for someone else!

"[Greg] Vaughn is in a funk so deep, George Clinton wearing a miner's helmet couldn't find him."
- Jim Baker, ESPN.com, May 2002

by achiappanza on Feb 28, 2009 2:53 PM PST up reply actions

And he lives in San Francisco on that salary? No wonder he bought a used car…

by shanghaijim on Feb 26, 2009 3:14 PM PST reply actions

and has a roommate.

co-dad of IshikaBOOM w/AfDC.
Ishikawa, hitting well against lefties since 2/25/2009.

by kennv on Feb 26, 2009 5:51 PM PST up reply actions

Giants have the biggest bargain and the biggest ripoff in MLB today

Lincecum and some pitcher who uses number 75

by SFGuy on Feb 26, 2009 6:24 PM PST reply actions

Just pretend their salaries are switched. It makes me feel a little better.

Less arm, more talk. Raisingcain is a GAMER.
Adopted Giant: Henry Sosa

by raisingcain on Feb 26, 2009 10:31 PM PST up reply actions

That’s what makes it so attractive to package them in a trade and free up cash to sign Manny!

Fred Lewis can stand under my umbrella.
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We are at war with Los Angeles. We have always been at war with Los Angeles.

by S.F. Giangst on Feb 27, 2009 4:17 AM PST up reply actions

Arbitration eligble years

Doesn’t it seem like a team’s best shot to get a good price on arbitration-eligible years is an extention in advance of those years arriving? ISTR that’s what Beane did occasionally.

I dunno, this seems like a waste of an opportunity to me.

"[Greg] Vaughn is in a funk so deep, George Clinton wearing a miner's helmet couldn't find him."
- Jim Baker, ESPN.com, May 2002

by achiappanza on Feb 28, 2009 2:55 PM PST reply actions