{"id":10654,"date":"2016-01-25T13:27:04","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T18:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=10654"},"modified":"2016-01-25T13:27:04","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T18:27:04","slug":"giants-have-been-in-contact-with-tim-lincecum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2016\/01\/25\/giants-have-been-in-contact-with-tim-lincecum\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants have been in contact with Tim Lincecum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2016\/01\/timlincecum-1.jpg\" alt=\"timlincecum\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10655\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2016\/01\/timlincecum-1.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2016\/01\/timlincecum-1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nOnce a back-to-back Cy Young award winner, Tim Lincecum remains on the free agent market looking for his next contract.<\/p>\n<p>Four rough seasons and a hip surgery in September have sucked the value out of the now 31-year-old right hander who has spent his entire major league career with the San Francisco Giants.<\/p>\n<p>Giants general manager Bobby Evans tld teh San Francisco Chronicle that the team has been in contact with Lincecum.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Timmy has been such a big part of our fabric and success,&#8221; Evans told the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/giants\/article\/Tim-Lincecum-eyes-February-showcase-Giants-seem-6778187.php?t=6df4bfe64a0a4808f6&#038;cmpid=twitter-premium\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Chronicle<\/a>. &#8220;It\u2019s important we do our due diligence. Of course we\u2019re going to keep in touch with Tim Lincecum.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lincecum is planning to hold a throwing showcase for interested teams in February in Arizona.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once a back-to-back Cy Young award winner, Tim Lincecum remains on the free agent market looking for his next contract. Four rough seasons and a hip surgery in September have sucked the value out of the now 31-year-old right hander who has spent his entire major league career with the San Francisco Giants. Giants general [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,501,139,14],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-10654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-san-francisco-giants","11":"tag-tim-lincecum"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10656,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10654\/revisions\/10656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10654"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}